Sounds a good setup.
Re cards I can't give advice. 3COM have a good name around here.
Re. network bandwidth. I work in 155Mbps fibre optic networking for medical imaging.
If you are networking PCs for general data traffic in a health centre,
there's no point at all in going for 100MBps Ethernet -
the PCs cant't keep up! Honest!
Whoever advised you is quite correct.
Two points I'd make:
1) a simple unmanaged hub is fine. I just bought an eight port hub
2) if you have the money, think of a switched Ethernet unit.
This has a LOT of advantages.
Basically, you keep the same network card and wiring.
However, each PC has the full 10Mbps bandwidth, courtest of a central
intelligent switching unit which slots in to replace your unmanaged hub.
We have one in our group at the moment.
Price is somewhere between 2000 UK pounds and 3000 UK pounds
A good unit will have spare slots for future upgrades
(eg to the fast Ethernet you mention)
I'll be happy to give you any other advice I can.
John Hearns
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