<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 18, 2005, at 5:41 PM, <<A href="mailto:hoffmann@fidnet.com">hoffmann@fidnet.com</A>> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Or, maybe I should start with one classroom and one server before I get</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">myself into this too deep?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Again, I'm open to all suggestions.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If the 3 rooms are adjacent, and there isn't any existing wiring (no server room, etc) -- I think the shoestring budget method would be to put the server in the middle room. Attach the server to the 16 port switch in there, and send 1 line to each of the other 2 rooms.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If you can afford it, the middle room (with the server) would benefit from a gigabit ethernet card, and if the switch had 3 gigabit ports (one for the server, and one for each of the other 2 rooms) performance would be best.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Also, the other rooms would need (1) gigabit port in order to take advantage of the speed.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-Shawn</DIV></BODY></HTML>