That's about it really. You get more bandwidth. :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karthik Poobalasubramanian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 12:51 PM Subject: Re: waitasec... gigabit?!? was Re: [brlug-general]networking ignorance
> 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
