does that mean i buy a linsys wint a cisco label on it or actually go cisco (just j/k) trying to find a decent product with a decent price this is just for home use.
I buy 64 bit Intel Pro's on ebay for 25 bucks all day long. I tried some cheap 32bit gigabit cards in Robins kr7a thinhking it wouldnt make a differance. Wrong. I could double her transfer speed by swapping in a broadcom or Intel. The netgear, broadcom and intel, 3com cards all transfer about the same but I like the Intels proset utilities. But not all those cards handle jumbo frames either or don't work together well doing it.
Switch got here. I just copied 23gb of MP3's across from one server to another in 31 minutes. But data was coming off a ide drive. Lets see if it wasnt limiting the throuput. I'll move the mP3's onto the scsi raid and copy from two servers running scsi raid arrays. I think I am bumping the speed of whicg the ide trasfers not the speed of teh network.
Here is the deal... You are only as fast as your internet pipe.. Sure gigbit from machine to machine, but really, do you do that much machine to machine file transfering, even so the only real reason I could see it in the home is for streaming media, and thats alot of streaming media...
Here is the deal... You are only as fast as your internet pipe.. Sure gigbit from machine to machine, but really, do you do that much machine to machine file transfering, even so the only real reason I could see it in the home is for streaming media, and thats alot of streaming media...
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I do lots of file transfering of ISO images and general backup files to my server, so the faster the better as it just means less waiting around. The streaming media argument was lost long ago as most media doesn't need a 10Mb connection, never mind 1000Mb.
EDIT: Also, what has your internet pipe got to do with anything?
Uhhh Goobles: I daily copy 20 to 60 gb of stuff from server to server just for backups. Plus I run both a Oracle database and application server. I run a domain and with gigabit its really realistic to keep the home directorys on the domain server and not feel impacted at all as far as speed is concerned. Nobody said the gigabit helped your internet speed? But many of us use our networks for more then sharing a internet connection also for Petes sake. My router handles that and I run 100mbit Nics in the servers to keep the internet connection seperate from my real network also. Sounds like you just use your PC to browse the net. No YOU don't need gigabit maybe.
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my ever so humble .02
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I do lots of file transfering of ISO images and general backup files to my server, so the faster the better as it just means less waiting around. The streaming media argument was lost long ago as most media doesn't need a 10Mb connection, never mind 1000Mb.
EDIT: Also, what has your internet pipe got to do with anything?
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