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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (1297)	3/15/1999 8:03:00 AM
From: John Mireley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2617

>I could update to 100 megabits for a couple of hundred How many nodes do you have? I just went to 100 mbs with four nodes for $100. The price on 4 port 100 mbs only hubs are at $50, 10/100 hubs are $75 and 10/100 NICs are as low as $12.

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (1297)	3/15/1999 3:05:00 PM
From: Rar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2617

That's the thing with X. Users on a small LAN of a handful of computers always perceive that bandwidth usage on X is great. It's not that X doesn't perform well for users on the LAN. However, from the network managers point of view, X takes up a significant amount of bandwidth that is being used inefficiently. And bandwidth management on a corporate network is all their job is about. You can easily cut down on X traffic by 30-50% with a better design. Furthermore on a WAN with Dialup, ISDN, or DSL lines X starts going to hell fairly quickly unless you use a low-bandwidth X protocol.