On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:08, Jim Glaspole wrote: > So I gather that Cat 5e will perform at better than 100Mb/s, the NIC and > hub/switch/server are the constraints (not that I have any gripes with > our current speed anyway)? I had believed that Cat 6 cable was > hideously expensive until Horst's post.
Cat6 cable costs little more from my wholesaler than Cat5e, as I said. Throughput on 32Bit bus PCI boards usually saturate at 300 Mbs throughput, so on average the best you can achieve is triplicating your throughput with GB NICs as compared to 100 Mbs ones, but newer mainboards with integrates GB NICs seem to do a lot better than that - at least the socket 939 boards I recently bought all came close to the theoretical maximum throughput. To test real life performance, I recommend "iperf" in "dual" mode Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
