The telephones only operate on 100MB so when you daisy chain the PC through the
phone to the wall then to the switch, even though the PC has a 1000MB card in
it, the phone only copes with 100MB so the pc speed is downgraded.
Initially we thought this would be a big issues and have a huge impact in speed
on the clients, but after several time trials from before and after, there is
actual no difference (there may be the odd 1000th of a second, but not enough to
notice when timing).
Epicor (certainly V8 and E9) are slow, there is no getting away from that when
compared with our legacy system which works with client and back-end just the
same on a server that was approximately 6yr old, single core, 2gb ram.
We are on 8 core, 20gb ram now and its slower than our legacy system.
Printing of big reports (no matter what they were) was virtually instant on our
legacy system.
The biggest different we made (especially for opening forms and printing) was to
increase all PCs to 3GB from 2 and 1 GB. This has a sigificant improvement on
printing speeds - it shaved seconds off the typical quote print. Still not
great, but a lot better than it was.
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From: Dan Shallbetter <
dans@...>
To:
vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, 30 September, 2010 14:15:41
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Lan upgrade to support Vantage 9.X?
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Hello Chris,
I think they made the recommendation based on cost & ease of installation.
Current environment is running 10/100, is there an easy way to determine what
the client connection speed is? Users have complained about speed since we moved
up to 8.X. I was hoping that moving to a gigabit environment would make a
noticeable difference? My existing server was tuned by Vantage when we migrated
to 8.X?
I am surprised that the telephone would use that much band width to cause the
connection speed to degrade.
Dan
From:
vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:
vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Chris Thompson
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 2:32 AM
To:
vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Lan upgrade to support Vantage 9.X?
What do they recommend TS for?
We currently have a CAT6 installation with gigabit switches. However, we have
had a new phone installation and as we havent had enough RJ45 outlets we have
had to daisy chain in the phones. This reduces the PCs connection to 100MB
instead of 1000MB.
It makes absolutely no noticable difference whatsoever to the speed of Epicor.
________________________________
From: Dan Shallbetter <
dans@... <mailto:dans%40statesmfg.com> >
To:
vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wed, 29 September, 2010 17:32:02
Subject: [Vantage] Lan upgrade to support Vantage 9.X?
Current running 8.03.404 on a LAN wired using Cat 5 cable, with some
shop floor fiber optic runs. I have been told that Cat 5 will not
reliably support gigabit speeds. I am considering replacing the Cat 5
with Cat 6 and upgrading switches & clients to gigabit devices. Epicor
is suggesting a terminal server environment (which I know nothing about)
as an option to extend the life of existing clients (30). I could not
get a definitive answer regarding Vantage performance on the 2 different
options. My ultimate goal is to someday come up to the current release
level (once this user group gives it's seal of approval). Any opinions
on the hardware options?
TIA
Dan Shallbetter
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