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Randy Smith (rjsmith@iron.hq.aflc.af.mil) wrote:
: 
: Recently, there's been some dicussion around the office that X can be a 
: bandwidth hog.  Obviously, it depends on what you are doing, but on a
: thicknet ethernet just how bad would it be to use X to support an office
: automation environment, i.e. some word processing, e-mail, and spreadsheet
: applications.  We don't forsee a lot of big bitmap-type activity.

Contrary to common belief, X is not generally a bandwidth hog. In our testing
of various software packages with HP 700/RX X terminals, the average loading 
per terminal rarely went above 1% of the total LAN bandwidth. The types of
applications which you describe would probably take a lot less bandwidth. As 
a rule of thumb, to avoid collisions and maintain good interactive response, 
you might want to limit yourself to no more than 40 users per dedicated
LAN segment. 

Hope this helps!

Tony Hart,
Panacom Automation Division,
Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Ltd.

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