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Non-Tech : CYBERTRADER -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: William W. Dwyer, Jr. who wrote (456)	4/30/1998 7:14:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3216

Well, not being a trader (yet at least) <GG> I'm only tracking the thread trying to figure out where my future might lie. However, this post tells me you could benefit functionally from NT as well as from the greater stability. The routing function in NT will allow you to route IP sessions over a single connection from any connection in your local lan. The significance of this is that you could have one PC connected to an ISP or other TCP/IP source (via ISDN or analog modem or whatever-- even frame relay) and access that connection from other pcs on your local lan through routing via the connected PC. Did you realize what this meant in my confusing earlier post? NT workstation can only reroute one source (NT server, about 5 times more expensive) can route 256 (or is it 255? -- anyhow, a bunch). However, with two PCs you could route 1 external connection from each. BTW, from what you say I infer you think peer-to-peer means no hub. Not so. If you add frame relay, you're going to need a hub because your frame will add a third IP address to your local lan. (I say 'need' a hub, but strictly speaking you don't; you can daisy chain them all together. BUT if you do, then you can't access the frame if the PC in the middle is down for some reason. With a hub, every connection is independent of the others. Of course then the hub itself becomes another point of failure, but hubs are simple creatures which rarely fail, unlike PCs. Peer-to-peer just means everybody on the lan is equal (from the network protocol viewpoint); a hub operates at a lower level in the protocol stack (ethernet, token ring, etc). Same with a hub or a direct connection (coax, I assume). RELATED TOPIC: Do you have UPSs (Uninteruptible power supplies)? I think I asked this once before. If not, get 'em. You must put ALL your equipment on them, including the frame realy interface, or your dead in a power failure. Just when you need to sell, sell, sell <GGG>. Spots