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.
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>----- 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
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>>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...
>>:)
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>>--- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>>From: "Brad Bendily" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>To: <[email protected]>
>>>Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 9:38 AM
>>>Subject: Re: [brlug-general] networking ignorance
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>>>>>I can't see you needing to spend the money on
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>>>the kind of hardware you'd
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>>>>>need to achieve this.
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>>>>I'd have to agree with this statement.
>>>>
>>>>One bottleneck you didn't think of is the speed of
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>>>your workstations.
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>>>>Your hard drives probably won't be able to write
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>>>data any faster than
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>>>>the 100MB speed any way. So 1000MB may be useless.
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>>>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.
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