I administer the network for our small company and learning on the job.
We currently have a SBS 2003 server and a handful of workstations with with a Gigabit Network cards. A little over half of our workstations only have 100 mbps cards at the moment.
Right now we have a 24 port 10/100 switch and things run fairly smoothly around here, but I assume we’d see a bit better performance if we upgraded to a Gigabit switch. It seems like just moving to a gigabit connection from the server to the rest of the network would help.
Questions:
Is there anything else I should look at performance wise before doing this upgrade?
Most of the workstations with 100mbps cards are laptops. I’ve seen USB 2.0 to Gigabit ethernet adapters for less then $50. How well do you think those would work to upgrade those computers?
What switch would you recommend? We are maxed out on our 24 port switch so I’m thinking recommending going to a 48 port switch.
Thanks for your help.