Free Windows Help Tutorials sponsored by inkjet printer cartridges dot org /title> <META HTTP-EQUIV="imagetoolbar" CONTENT="no"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=ISO 8859-1"> <META name="description" Content="Hundreds of downloadable Windows help tutorials, articles and how-to guides sponsored by inkjet printer cartridges dot org."><style type="text/css">  </style> </head> <body bgcolor=#999999 vlink=blue link=blue> <span name = "INTRA" class="pg" style="top:0px; left:5px; width:714px; height:1010px"></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:0px; left:5px; height:1010px; width:714px' class='img'> <img src="pg0002im.png" height = "1010 width = "714" border="0"> </span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:51px; left:48px' class="ft4"><pre><font face='Helvetica'>Problem Solving:Overview</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:203px; left:77px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>also the most impractical, is to provide</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:203px; left:272px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>municate with. The further away from</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:203px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>solution that offers the best working</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:215px; left:77px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>each network device with a dedicated</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:215px; left:272px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>this model the design gets, the worse</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:215px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>compromise.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:227px; left:77px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>high speed connection directly to each</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:227px; left:272px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>the network performance will be. The</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:227px; left:480px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>In Figure 1, despite the switch, Net </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:239px; left:77px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>network service that it needs to com </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:239px; left:272px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>aim should be to achieve a balanced</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:239px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>work B has no performance advantage</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:251px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>over Network A because all the work </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:263px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>stations communicate back to the same,</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:275px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>single server. The bottleneck is still the</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:287px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>single pipe between the hub and the</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:299px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>server. Most networks experience the</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:311px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>majority of their traffic between work </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:323px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>stations and shared resources, such as</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:335px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>file servers, printers and routers.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:347px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>Workstations rarely communicate di </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:359px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>rectly with each other, with the excep </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:371px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>tion of peer to peer networks.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:383px; left:480px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>Even with messaging systems, the</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:395px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>message is rarely sent directly to an </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:408px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>other</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:408px; left:502px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>workstation</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:408px; left:571px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>without going</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:420px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>through a server. The only benefit net </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:432px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>work B could provide is in improving</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:444px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>network performance between work </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:456px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>stations. Depending on the type of net </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:468px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>work installation, it is unlikely that this</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:480px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>kind of traffic will be sent.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:492px; left:480px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>However if Network B were to use</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:504px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>a high speed connection between the</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:516px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>server and the switch as shown in Fig </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:528px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>ure 2, significant performance im </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:540px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>provements could be gained. Using a</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:552px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>higher speed connection would reduce</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:556px; left:122px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>Figure 1 Despite the switch, Network B has no performance</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:564px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>or eliminate any bottlenecks. Multiple</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:570px; left:210px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>benefits over Network A.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:576px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>high speed connections between the</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:588px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>server and switch would further im </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:600px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>prove performance, by allowing sev </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:612px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>eral simultaneous messages to be</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:624px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>received and sent by the file server.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:636px; left:484px' c