Hi all, Hope there are some network gurus out there who can provide some advice. At the moment we are in a centralised LAN running @10Mbps, where PCs access the App sever and DB sever locally. There are appoximately 250+ PCs in this LAN, but only about 20+ access the App/DB servers. <location A> We are planning to move the App and DB server to another location 10km away, which will be part of another LAN, @100Mbps <location B> We have another central networking hub in another location which handles the WAN connections, traffic and monitoring <location X> From A to X the WAN link is 10Mb From X to B the WAN link is 100Mb So my question is: will we (@ location A) experience a significant bottleneck with this relocation? Especially on trying to get the data across from the servers? i.e. Alt;--------------------- B 10Mbps 100Mbps We have done some tests by moving a PC to location B and connect to the App/DB servers at location A...performance is similar to the LAN enviroment, which would make sense because we can only get a max. throughput of 10Mbps. A ----------------> B 10Mbps 100Mbps If you provide any help/advice that would be much appreciated. Cheers

I would like to know where you are getting the figures of 10mb and 100mb for WAN connections 10kms away? Those figures based on my wan experience are not factual. A full PtP T1 is 1.54mbits. Even my comcast cable is only 3mbits. But I am in the US so maybe European bandwidth is different. So how are you going to get those bandwidth rates at 10km? Golly gee wilerkers everyone! Learn to Internet Search

He's have to be running fiber connections to get 10 or 100 meg between spots , if that's the case you should easily be able to upgrade your link to lan ":A" .

fiber 10kms? if so it wouldn't be 10mb. If multimode fiber it would be gigabit. Hmm wonder why I am sceptical? Golly gee wilerkers everyone! Learn to Internet Search