Best Setup?

She:kon/Greetings

We're running Windows Server 2003 on a Dell PowerStation server.
There are 30 users.

Which one of these setups would give the best throughput if either?

Our current setup

Internet
| T-1 Line
-----------------
| ISP Router |
-----------------
| 100 Mbps Ethernet
----------------------------------------
| Our Router |
----------------------------------------
| | | | | | | |
100 Mbps Ethernet on all cabling
---------------- Workstations
| Server |
-----------------

Possible alternative

Internet
| T-1 Line
-----------------
| ISP Router |
-----------------
| 100 Mbps Ethernet
-----------------
| Server |
-----------------
| 100 Mbps Ethernet
-----------------
| Our Router |
-----------------
| | | | | | | 100 Mbps Ethernet on all cabling
Workstations

Right now, the server only uses one of its two NICs. and
is treated as just another workstation on our router.
In the second scenario, it would use both; one for the
connection to the ISP's router and one for the connection to our router.

Sken:nen/Peace
Tom Lake
Information Systems Administrator
St. Regis Mohawk Tribe Environment Division
449 Frogtown Rd.
Akwesasne, NY 13655
(518) 358-5937 Ext. 117

E-mail: (E-Mail Removed)
Website: http://www.srmtenv.org

Better throughput to where? The internet?
Your T1 connection to the internet is a 1.5 Mbps connection.
And your LAN connections are 100 Mbps. Obviously your bottleneck is the
internet connection.

One thing you could do to increase throughput to the server (but not the
internet) is use Link Aggregation, with the 2 NICs
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_aggregation)
Which would give the server a 200 Mbps connection to the LAN.... faster for
the workstation connecting to that server.



"Tom Lake" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news1497815-439D-4C55-BC20-(E-Mail Removed)...
> She:kon/Greetings
>
> We're running Windows Server 2003 on a Dell PowerStation server.
> There are 30 users.
>
> Which one of these setups would give the best throughput if either?
>
> Our current setup
>
> Internet
> | T-1 Line
> -----------------
> | ISP Router |
> -----------------
> | 100 Mbps Ethernet
> ----------------------------------------
> | Our Router |
> ----------------------------------------
> | | | |
> | | | | 100 Mbps Ethernet on all cabling
> ---------------- Workstations
> | Server |
> -----------------
>
> Possible alternative
>
> Internet
> | T-1 Line
> -----------------
> | ISP Router |
> -----------------
> | 100 Mbps Ethernet
> -----------------
> | Server |
> -----------------
> | 100 Mbps Ethernet
> -----------------
> | Our Router |
> -----------------
> | | | | | | | 100 Mbps Ethernet on all
> cabling
> Workstations
>
> Right now, the server only uses one of its two NICs. and
> is treated as just another workstation on our router.
> In the second scenario, it would use both; one for the
> connection to the ISP's router and one for the connection to our router.
>
> Sken:nen/Peace
> Tom Lake
> Information Systems Administrator
> St. Regis Mohawk Tribe Environment Division
> 449 Frogtown Rd.
> Akwesasne, NY 13655
> (518) 358-5937 Ext. 117
>
> E-mail: (E-Mail Removed)
> Website: http://www.srmtenv.org
>
>
>

I would keep the current setup.

--
Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on
http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on
http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"Tom Lake" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news1497815-439D-4C55-BC20-(E-Mail Removed)...
> She:kon/Greetings
>
> We're running Windows Server 2003 on a Dell PowerStation server.
> There are 30 users.
>
> Which one of these setups would give the best throughput if either?
>
> Our current setup
>
> Internet
> | T-1 Line
> -----------------
> | ISP Router |
> -----------------
> | 100 Mbps Ethernet
> ----------------------------------------
> | Our Router |
> ----------------------------------------
> | | | |
> | | | | 100 Mbps Ethernet on all cabling
> ---------------- Workstations
> | Server |
> -----------------
>
> Possible alternative
>
> Internet
> | T-1 Line
> -----------------
> | ISP Router |
> -----------------
> | 100 Mbps Ethernet
> -----------------
> | Server |
> -----------------
> | 100 Mbps Ethernet
> -----------------
> | Our Router |
> -----------------
> | | | | | | | 100 Mbps Ethernet on all
> cabling
> Workstations
>
> Right now, the server only uses one of its two NICs. and
> is treated as just another workstation on our router.
> In the second scenario, it would use both; one for the
> connection to the ISP's router and one for the connection to our router.
>
> Sken:nen/Peace
> Tom Lake
> Information Systems Administrator
> St. Regis Mohawk Tribe Environment Division
> 449 Frogtown Rd.
> Akwesasne, NY 13655
> (518) 358-5937 Ext. 117
>
> E-mail: (E-Mail Removed)
> Website: http://www.srmtenv.org
>
>
>