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Network Performance & Cisco Catalyst 2960 (10/100)

Dear Experts,

I have an office of 18 users in a single AD domain with 2008 R2 File, Exchange 2010 and SharePoint 2010 servers... our LAN is on four 10/100 Cisco switches daisy chained together currently.  How could I set these switches up so that the users could get the most network performance... and how do I measure or create the benchmark to see how the current setup is doing now... Please advise.  Thanks.
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Yeah, you COULD use etherchannel. (The limit is actually 8 channels, not 4, but 4 would probably suffice).

In your scenario, you would need to have 4 etherchannel compatible, 100Mb NICs in  each server, and would consume an extra 18 ports on the switches.

Were it me, I would be spending a few $$s on GBIC 1000baseT adaptors. Not expensive, and way faster and less complex than configuring etherchannel.
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Thanks both!!