Which network topography?

[photys 0]

A Geovision client of mine has a 4 port router/modem, 3 computers and 1 basic server.

 

He is adding 6 computers to his system.

These will all be in an office located 30 meters from the existing router/modem

 

So:

Room A

Router/modem

1 computer

1 Geovision system

 

Room B

1 basic server

5 computers

 

Each of his computers is only used for an hour a day.

Rarely more than 3 at any one time.

The Geovision is the only computer that is used daily on the internet.

 

Im thinking 2 connected STARS. One with server and switch, one with router/modem.

 

Am I right in thinking it makes sense to place a switch by the server and run short lengths of cat5 to each computer.

Then run a 30m cable to the Router/modem.

This reduces congestion to the server but increases congestion to the modem.

[napjones 0]

This should not really pose a problem, but it also depends on which software you are running on the computers, the switch should able to route the packets effectively. You should also manually set the ip address for all devices on the network, assuming windows here.

[SureVeillance 0]

You are right. Traffic through the modem is a small fraction of the bandwidth of a switch, so you should optimize the computer to server traffic and not worry too much about the traffic over the modem line.

[SureVeillance 0]

You are right. Traffic through the modem is a small fraction of the bandwidth of a switch, so you should optimize the computer to server traffic and not worry too much about the traffic over the modem line.