Re: Microsoft XP Pro vs XP Home

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From: Steve Winograd [MVP] (winograd_at_pobox.com)
Date: 06/06/04 

Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 12:19:05 -0600

In article <kjh6c0l1bri8endvvfei67q0ehc4d0j7r1@4ax.com>, Chuck
<none@example.net> wrote:
>On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 06:31:04 -0700, "MS" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
>wrote:
>
>>I work for a non-profit org where money is really tight. We are buying some low-end pentium 4 desktops for a network of 15 counselors and teachers. How important is it that we upgrade the free XP Home to XP Pro (+$80 per unit)? Will this prevent networking problems or is XP home reliable as a small business networking solution? Thanks for your input. Mark
>
>Mark,
>
>The other posters offer good advice. There is one major point which you may
>need to consider, however.
>
>Will you be sharing files between the desktops? XP Home limits you to 5 inbound
>connections / computer (XP Pro to 10). If you share files between 15 computers,
>you may run up against the connection limits rather quickly.

Adding a note to all the other good advice: those limits are the
number of simultaneous connections to a computer from other computers
on the network. There would be no problem with XP Home unless more
than 5 other computers try to connect to its shared disks/folders at
the same time. There's no limit to the number of computers that can
be networked together. 

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