stn24 - 6:31 pm on Aug 8, 2001 (gmt 0)

Thanks for your comments.

About the firewall, do you just use a software or a physical one (ie. hub box).

SugarKane : I looked on the isp's website not a mention of "contention ratio". Their service is actually ADSL - but isn't the point of all the dsl technology to be a dedicated connection that connects straight into DSLAM at the phone company's central office? I am not sure how it could be shared.

Hypothetical question : If you were to improve a web & SQL server's performance (1 box) would you first look at RAM or the chip? I think we can all agree on that the SQL part of the system is much more resource intensive. Therefore increasing the cpu should speed up the the query when it runs, but already executed stored procedures are kept in cache. Increasing RAM should improve retrieval from cache.