what difference would this make in a home network other than shorten the time for sending large files?
Dustin Puryear wrote: >Typically, you will see Mb/s or Mbit/s for megabit/sec and MB/s for >megabyte/sec. So Fast Ethernet has a wire speed of 12.5 MB/s. Considering >10-15% for overhead (e.g., Ethernet, IP, and TCP headers), you really max >out around 10 MB/s to 11 MB/s. With GigE that number is around 105 MB/s. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "John Hebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 12:15 PM >Subject: waitasec... gigabit?!? was Re: [brlug-general] networking ignorance > > > > >>You mean this is all marketing hype?!? I assumed >>1000MB ethernet meant 10 times faster than 100MB... >> >>wow. guess I should pay attention to the fine print... >>:) >> >>--- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>----- Original Message ----- >>>From: "Brad Bendily" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>To: <[email protected]> >>>Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 9:38 AM >>>Subject: Re: [brlug-general] networking ignorance >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>>I can't see you needing to spend the money on >>>>> >>>>> >>>the kind of hardware you'd >>> >>> >>>>>need to achieve this. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>I'd have to agree with this statement. >>>> >>>>One bottleneck you didn't think of is the speed of >>>> >>>> >>>your workstations. >>> >>> >>>>Your hard drives probably won't be able to write >>>> >>>> >>>data any faster than >>> >>> >>>>the 100MB speed any way. So 1000MB may be useless. >>>> >>>> >>>Keep in mind that network numbers are usually in >>>Mbit/s while storage >>>numbers are in MB/s. So a gigabit switch running at >>>1000 Mbit/s is running >>>at 125 MB/s. >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>General mailing list >>>[email protected] >>>http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >>__________________________________ >>Do you Yahoo!? >>New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! >>http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail >> >>_______________________________________________ >>General mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > >
