CH>> Whether there are 10 or 1000 LAN users on a 10bt network, if
 CH>> the server can much  more than saturate the bandwidth, how
 CH>> can putting in a faster server help?
 MB> It depends upon what the clients are doing.
I'll add two points. First off, a server that's capable of saturating a 10MB 
pipe generally will not do so no matter what the load in the real world is, 
because the average across-the-wire transaction is very small -- about 100 
bytes, according to monitors I have at some sites. The burst rate of the 
storage media becomes irrelevant when the disk gets stacked up handling small 
disk reads. This is unrelated to your point of file open/close/internal 
processing not being transmitted over the wire.
Second, 10MB is low-end these days. If the server can bury the wire, it's 
probably time to replace the hubs, add additional segments or install a 
switch. I sincerely doubt CH has has ever been here.
Jeff
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