>> Having said that, is there some rough guide to calculating the mimimum >> bandwidth required to support a given number of users with 56K connections >> to my machine ?
Look at your own ip-stats when you're surfing. >feed. That is a T1 in and of itself. Just grab the groups that are >requested and tell the people up front they have to request news groups Isn't there a news "proxy" (a news server, that grabs the news fromanother one, when they're requested)? >approximately when it will be there. Hrm... Oh, and definately, definately >setup a proxy and insist that your users use it whenever possible. I run a >small lan here at home and my proxy does get hit often enough to help and >that is only with me and my parents on the network. If you get ~20 people >dialing in chances are a lot of sites will be hit repeatedly. Like the >comic syndicates, pages they email to one another, etc. Yes, that's right. Can't one force the users to use theproxy at port 80/8080?
