DelCio wrote:
> *Looking to do about 900 connects, 450 or so concurrent with a SLA of
> 700 gigs
> a day. I've never set anything up with this kind of volume in Windows
> and was
> wondering if anyone could share their setup to comarpre? The box is
> a IBM
> x336, Dual dual-core 3.2ghz, 4096 ram, 2003 64-bit and need to know
> how many
> extra machines or configs everyone is using. *

"cxu123" wrote:
>
> The hardware will have no problem to support such volume. But because
> IIS ftp can't limit user's maximum speed, 450 or so concurrent
> connections, you will get complains of download speed being too slow
> from most users, at the same time some small group of users will eat up
> all server's bandwidth.
>
>

"DelCio" <DelCio@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> "cxu123" wrote:
>>
>> The hardware will have no problem to support such volume. But because
>> IIS ftp can't limit user's maximum speed, 450 or so concurrent
>> connections, you will get complains of download speed being too slow
>> from most users, at the same time some small group of users will eat up
>> all server's bandwidth.
>>
>>
> ** This is to automate FTP for certain files from about 900 servers to one
> central server. Most of the connects are slow. I guess I'm worried about
> disconnects with that many concurrent users.