[handyman]

Hi Guys,

Sorry I've not been on much lately but work and play have been pretty full on this year.

Having a few issues with our work network and I figured I would see if a reconfig of the network layout might help things.

We have a Microwave broadband connection that is 10mb down/2mb up. This comes into a netgear firewall router with 4x 1gb ports.

We have a 24 port switch that also has 2x gb ports.

Plugged into the switch (100 port) is a linksys adsl router that handles our voip calls (thru qos).

The switch goes into a patch panel and round the office to ethernet sockets.

We have a sbs 2011 server (dhcp, exchange) plugged into a 1gb port on the main switch and the other 1gb port on this connects to the netgear firewall. We also have a wireless access point plugged into a 100 port on the switch.

The problem I think we have and I'm trying to eliminate is a user that prints very large ppt files over the network killing our bandwidth. Previously I had him connected from the patch to the netgear and had set up a print server sharing the printer (connected on usb) so that it came out of the patch and into the netgear.

I removed that as was told it was a loop. (seemed to be working fine though).

So Finally to my question. Which way would be optimal to connect things up?

Cheers
Mark