Balancing Network Usage

If your server's network adapter or the network is a performance bottleneck, you can do one or more of the following:

• Use a higher speed network type, such as 100 MB/sec Fast Ethernet or fiber.
• Use a high-performance network adapter and multithreaded driver.
• Segment your network by using multiple network adapters in a single server.
• Reduce the amount of network traffic by:
  • Optimizing your public folder replication topology
  • Optimizing your directory replication topology
  • Restricting the times users can log on to minimize user traffic
  • Limiting the size of messages users can send