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[_] Slow pooters....

Ben Butterfield Ben.butterfield at propellondon.com
Thu Nov 1 18:03:48 GMT 2007

> Exchange 2003 running on 512MB of RAM is no exactly adequate, I would
> go for at least doubling that if not quadrupling.  If you are running
> the dbase and exchange on the same box then I would expect there to be
> a degradation in speed.  What network card is on the server?  Is it
> running at its full duplex speed or is it auto detected speed?
Sometimes
> the auto-detect speed can be reduced to the 10Mbps and not the 100Mbps
> as you woudl expect.

Yep - it all runs on the same box and has done for years, so I guess it
is about time we went for some more RAM. An HP server would need
proprietary RAM wouldn't it?

Not sure about the duplex mode - how do I find out?

> What make of switch have you got?

The switch is Avaya and the routers are Cisco.