From: Tom Gal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
A gigabit router? What preytell makes you need that for home use? Yes
I'm implying that having gig cards in your boxes doesn't mean you're
coming close to using that bandwidth or needing it. A hub, maybe, a
nice unmanaged switch with simple ARP cacheing will still run you I'd
say a couple hundred bucks, though not many people make them with just
a few ports as gigabit usually is for a network backbone or at least a
beefy small company. A gigabit router you're looking at high end
equipment likely thousands of dollars. MAYBE you get a 10/100 switch
with a single gigabit upling port, by my guess is if you didn't know
the costs involved, you probably don't need those capabilities. Even a
beefy small business would likely have a 2 port gigabit edge router
running to a large unmanaged gigabit switch IF they felt like they
needed the bandwidth for things within the buseinss (we ran telphony,
tons of audio, and speec recognition over the network). A multiport
gigabitrouter with wireless builtin probably doesn't exist.
Ok, so thats obviously more than I want to spend. But I obviously don't
need gigabit to the outside, only internally. While no, my average use
won't even remotely approach saturation, I want to be able to burst at close
to that at times. My main box will be streaming multiple audio streams to
different places on the LAN, on top of normal gaming type traffic.
Occasional LAN parties as well.
Buy your prices seem to be way off- a quick check of pricewatch shows dlink
gigabit routers as low as 100- which is a reasonable price. You're
thinking of much more high end stuff than I want, I think. Take a look at
something like http://games.dlink.com/products/?pid=371&#DGL-4100. 4
internal gigabit ports, an external 10/100 port (which is all I need), NAT
and a firewall. Its something like this that I want. Hell, for 109 at new
egg I might just grab it.
Gabe
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