You don't mention the backbone in your building. That has a lot to do with it including the nics in the workstations and servers as well as built-in redundancy, type and speed of switches and routers, etc. If you have a fast, reliable backbone and reliable nics in the machines that can reliably handle full-duplexing, then your data-access speed will improve. Keep in mind switches allow for isolated band-width usage on each port versus hubs which share bandwidth, etc...

Also, while VFP won't benefit from using multiple processors, the server itself will which can free up processing for VFP to use.

I never consider anything less than 256K RAM on a Windows 2000 VFP data server and that is the BARE-BONES-MININUM.

I recommend you do some research on the web in this area. There is a lot of free information out there that is pretty good.

One basic rule: never combine more than one primary processing function on a w2k server. For instance, no exchange server should also be a domain controller, etc... Separate these functions onto separate servers.

Tracy

>We're getting ready to do a major upgrade here (from NT 4.0 Server to 2000 Server and Win 95 Clients to XP Prof. clients).
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>We, of course, use a VFP app that requires a lot of data entry/retrieval throughout the day - as always - speed is essential. The app resides on the client while the data is on the server. We're not using SQL server - just plain old VFP. We're approaching 1 GB of data (861 MB to be exact).
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>It would be great if some of you would offer suggestions as to how our network should be setup to acheive the best performance possible. Things like:
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>How much benefit will we see (from VFP) with a two-processor server compared to a single processor?
>How much RAM in the server?
>Would a seperate machine that would share the VFP data provide any benefit?
>Most of the activity is on the third floor, would placing an additional server there help?
>If we could have a seperate server to handle MS Exchange - would that help?
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>Any other ideas would be appreciated. Thanks for your help!