Unit 1 Lab 2.2 Network Drives

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Renard Coats Intro to Networking NT1210T Lab 2.2. Network Drives Exercise 2.2.1 If an organization has 30 users, each with his or her own PC, what is the comparative cost of buying a $ 120 printer for each user versus the cost of buying a single , higher-capacity $500 printer that can cost of having two additional backup printers for the office compared to having individual printers? How many shared printers can be purchases and still be less expensive than individual printers? 30 users X $120 for the price of each printer = $3600 30users use a $500 printer Difference is $3100 savings using one printer The drawbacks to having only a single printer are too much information loading at the printer causing it to crash. Two back up printers $1000 VS 30 users X $120 for the price of each printer = $3600 30 users X $120 for the price of each printer = $3600 DIVIDED BY $500 printer = 7 printers can bought and still be less expensive than each user getting individual printers Exercise 2.2.2 If each of the 30 users in an organization prints an average of 22 pages per hour and a shared printer has the capacity to print 180 pages per hour, how many shared printers will be needed to prevent overloading each printer’s capacity? Would there be a benefit to having more that the exact number needed? Justify your answer If 30 users averaged 22 pages per hour than that would be 660 pages an hour So if 1 printer can only print out 180 pages per hour you would need 4 printers to share the load. 4 printers averaging 180 pages per hour = 720 pages per hour. Also if having more that the exact number needed will help because you can average even higher pages per minute increasing production. Exercise 2.2.3 In this exercise, you will map a network location to your local machine. Record the steps that you follow for the process, and record the network location that is

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