The Internet and Bandwidth

LOL, crosseye cable instead of a crossover cable.

But, seriosuly gsw™ ... do you really want to implement a system that you rely on that you don't fully understand? I say keep on doing what you're doing, though, it may be worthwhile to make space on the fileserver of attachments that only the attachment sending people can see, which gets deleted once a week or so.
 
stoke said:
LOL, crosseye cable instead of a crossover cable.

But, seriosuly gsw™ ... do you really want to implement a system that you rely on that you don't fully understand? I say keep on doing what you're doing, though, it may be worthwhile to make space on the fileserver of attachments that only the attachment sending people can see, which gets deleted once a week or so.
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That's exactly it. I don't.

Once our cap falls away at the end of the month, the people can email each other until the cows come home for all I care.

This is what happens when the Marketing manager has to become the IT manager... :rolleyes:
 
Ask Lord-Nikon to setup a linux box with mail for you. He will do anything for beer. :D In the end, you can save a lot of BW this way.
 
+1 Sharkbait, go for a linux box, heck you can even just setup a postfix smtp if you want your stuff to stay internal.

edit: actually that will only work for the sending part, you will have to put in a nice old linux mailserver.
 
setup a squid proxy - you will get the benefits of stuff being cached and you can then run reports on usage per user. You can also block certain files types etc.

You can run this on a desktop with your linux flavour of choice.
 
Hmmm... Have to admit I don't work for beer anymore too :D University days are over :D
 
Keeping internal mail internal

Proxy Plus http://www.proxyplus.net/

With this you get your internal mail server with unlimited accounts for under $300

Another option is hmailserver - a free windows program

No need for a server - just install it on xp home/pro

I got burnt by a linux server - this expert set it up, took him a whole weekend - it was cool - had webmin. But when it got struck by lightning, there was no data to recover even though it was running raid. Both the data drives were fried. So I chucked that out, installed windows xp - at least I know how to set it up and restore a backup in 45 minutes if it gets toasted.

ProxyPlus has the added benefit of filtering all web requests on 1 computer running Norton's Parental Control. Keep people from using the dodgy parts of the Net, without having to slow down the rest of the PCs with Norton.

Thats my 10c
 
Windows Small Business Server may be the bomb, especially as your system is only 11 computers.

Concerning bandwidth usage, things do go up yeah, it just happens. At my old job, we used 6 a month over 2 3GB accounts, and eventually as the school grew it started creeping up to 8, then 10 before I left. More students, same computers, always different websites, increased bandwidth. Killing Facebook and the others for students helps, but it's not a real solution. If I didn't have a proxy server in place things would have been far far worse.
 
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Asha'man X said:
Windows Small Business Server may be the bomb, especially as your system is only 11 computers.

Concerning bandwidth usage, things do go up yeah, it just happens. At my old job, we used 6 a month over 2 3GB accounts, and eventually as the school grew it started creeping up to 8, then 10 before I left. More students, same computers, always different websites, increased bandwidth. Killing Facebook and the others for students helps, but it's not a real solution. If I didn't have a proxy server in place things would have been far far worse.
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I had a once set up a server for an Internet cafe.....
65gig usage a month was reported :p

Then they called me to reduce the usage and I block all mp3,mpeg, movies, torrent sites and pornography sites...:eek:

The next usage was 4gig....:rolleyes:
 
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