Have a look at these postings. "Slow" performance was corrected by the use of swithces instead of hubs and by tweeking the server settings.

http://www.softrak.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=000983

http://www.softrak.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=001113

This is a quote from one of the postings where a process went from 7 minutes to 35 seconds!

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Network performance is critical, not just the 10 vs 100 cards, but also the hubs. It was taking over 7 minutes to recalculate a financial statement that took seconds in Plus. With the excellent support from Adagio, we ended up tracing the bottleneck to our 100mb hubs .. plugging the same workstations into a switch reduced the recalc time to 35 seconds. Not stellar, but certainly workable. Keep the switch vs hub issue in mind. Cheers!

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