JD>>I had a LAN fall flat on its face a couple times this week because of 
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JD>>heavy load. There are about 25 PCs, ranging from 486/66 with Intel
JD>>EtherExpress
JD>>16 to Pentium/75 with Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 PCI running a Foxpro 2.6 
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JD>>Windows app off the server. There are three HP 4 Plus printers, 1 on the
JD>>server, 2 on JetDirect cards operating as queue servers.
I'm sure there'll be far more qualified repliers than I, but the first
thing I'd do is get that printer OFF the server.  If I remember
correctly, running a printer on a 3.12 server gave me several of the
scraggly gray hairs I have on my head now.  Put that thing on even an
old 286 running as a print server, anything to get it off the server.
To be honest, the rest of that stuff doesn't sound too painful to me.  I
can't tell if you mean there's only one NIC in the server.  If you have
coax, with one cable in and another out, I'd suggest putting another NIC
in there, one for each cable.  That's cheap, easy and will help a TON!
I develop Clipper, FoxPro and dBASE stuff too and I have NEVER, EVER had
those kinds of performance problems.
Mike
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