Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 17:33:19 +1300
From: physmsa AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz (Mr M S Aitchison)
Subject: Re: network slow after 5 PC's
To: opendos-support AT delorie DOT com
Message-id: <199710160433.RAA04724@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
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> From: jj <jj AT pcombo DOT co DOT nz>
> 
> I am trying to build a network with 20 machines which is 386-33-4M,
> no HDD. Server is pentium 66  but when i have built up to six machines,
> it becomes very slow...

Use the NET ADMIN facility to configure the server (notice how you can
make it good as a server or give the local user more RAM and
performance; non-dedicated servers are typically poorer performers when
you get past about 5 users, and there are default choices for
simultaneous connections, etc that guess you won't have a lot of
clients.  So optimising configuration options is important, but it
shouldn't be *too* bad with 20 clients, even if they are going to the
server for everything, if you are careful.

For more help I'd need more information about what the clients are
doing, what the server does apart from serve, and whether you can make
some RAM available to VDISK.SYS.
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