Some Basic Help

I'm just a beginer network student, and still there's some things that I don't undestand too much
I have some doubts about link bandwidth. E.g.: I have a 256Kbps link. Is it a large or small link for a mediun network ? What should be a good link bandwidth for a network with 40 machines
Where can I find an article where I can learn more about this

Please help me....

I don't know of any rules for determining that. The bandwidth would be
eaten up by concurrent simultanous connections, not by how many machines
there are in the system. Plus the internet traffic is in "spurts"
anyway,...there is traffic as the page loads in the browser, but there is no
traffic at all while the user just sits there reading the page.

I've seen networks of 80 machines use 256k, yet at the same time my internet
connection at home is 2mbps ("m" not "k") and I can eat it up with only one
machine if I want to. So things just aren't that simple.

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Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


"Peter" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I'm just a beginer network student, and still there's some things that I
don't undestand too much.
> I have some doubts about link bandwidth. E.g.: I have a 256Kbps link. Is
it a large or small link for a mediun network ? What should be a good link
bandwidth for a network with 40 machines ?
> Where can I find an article where I can learn more about this ?
>
> Please help me....