ceejay Wrote: > Well, fortunately I have quite a thick skin so don't feel terribly > beaten up! > > The point I was trying to make in a very short post was that you > probably won't get 100% usage from a LAN. I offered 50% as a rule of > thumb that has worked well for me. > > I'd agree that a short point to point will get much closer to 100% > because you really only have to worry about some overhead. > > But when you start to run long cables, or introduce multiple devices on > the network, that figure drops. In my case, I know that if I'm doing a > sustained long copy across my network (when backing up my music > library, for example), 50% is pretty much what I get. > > Let's also not forget the context of the original question - "how many > streams can you have?" Which implies multiple devices and contention as > being relevant.... > > YMMV ! > > Ceejay
Multiple devices can drive down your aggregate bit rates when there are collisions but I wouldn't expect to see collisions in a switched environment. Neither would I expect to see long-ish cable runs costing much, unless you're pushing the rating limit (100M) or have out of spec cabling. If you're seeing 50Mb on your backups, you might have some other issue like bad cable/jacks or I/O limitations on your hosts. If your network is really bottlenecking you at 50Mb, something ain't right... -- rudholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rudholm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2980 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24454 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
