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... :)
 MB> It depends entirely upon what you are doing on the wire.  I've had as
 MB> many as 300 workstations on a 4 Mbps token ring, but I would not do
 MB> that today.  If you are sharing printers and occasional files, you can
 MB> live with anything.  If you have heavy shared database processing or
 MB> video to the desktop, you need every bit of bandwidth you can get.
 MB> Also, the cost of moving 5 or 10 workstations to 100 Mbps is a heck of
 MB> a lot less than moving 100, so it is often easier to justify.
That's true, but the original poster was talking about his HOME
network...
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