Gerry Danen wrote in a message to Bernhard Kuemel:
 GD> At work I run over 100 workstations and 2 servers on a 10
 GD> Mbps ethernet LAN, so unless you have some incredible needs,
 GD> I would not sweat the fibre... :)
It depends entirely upon what you are doing on the wire.  I've had as many as 
300 workstations on a 4 Mbps token ring, but I would not do that today.  If 
you are sharing printers and occasional files, you can live with anything.  
If you have heavy shared database processing or video to the desktop, you 
need every bit of bandwidth you can get.
Also, the cost of moving 5 or 10 workstations to 100 Mbps is a heck of a lot 
less than moving 100, so it is often easier to justify.
 
-- Mike
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