Re: [expert] 486 DX?

2000-12-15 Thread Trevor Farrell
I'm using a 486dx2-66 at work to provide DHCP services, share a modem, cache DNS, monitor network traffic, share 2 printers and some disk space so some Win NT & 98 machines can all function together. It only has 16MB ram, but still functions just fine. Gets a bit slow if too many big documents

RE: [expert] 486 DX?

2000-12-07 Thread Eric Peters
Well that depends on a couple of things. How many hits or what's is the workload on the web server going to be? And for the news server are you going to start your own and how many messages do expect from that? In other words the server will not handle taking 50,000 hits a day and be able to r

Re: [expert] 486 DX?

2000-12-07 Thread Bill Shannon
personally i would need to know more about the machine.. ram, hd, nic's...   all in all, anything on a 486 will be slow compared to a 166mmx setup, but still it will work and network functions (if installed properly) will barely notice any difference.   I wouldn't do it with less than 64 meg

RE: [expert] 486 DX?

2000-12-07 Thread Eric Peters
Well that depends on a couple of things. How many hits or what's is the workload on the web server going to be? And for the news server are you going to start your own and how many messages do expect from that? In other words the server will not handle taking 50,000 hits a day and be able to r