Hi Ben, Thanks for taking the time to respond. From my understanding, on a dedicated connection, a network utilization of close to 60% can be reasonably expected for TCP/IP connections. That would give me 60mbps in which to work. (I usually like to work with around 100% overhead available.) The computers are going to be connected up directly, or at least through a switch, so the only collisions that I have to worry about are the ACKs with data packets.
I can do file transfers at up to 70mpbs for large transfers between machines, so I think that it is possible. MS may do something funky to improve speed, so that may not be the best test. I will try to find some other software to perform this test with. Maybe I can use SCP (w & w/o encryption) to see what network utilization I can get. I've thought about the gigabit route, but I'd like to avoid it if possible as it adds additional expenses and makes laptop use more difficult. But I might end up getting some gigabit cards and giving it a try to see whether I get a noticable improvement. Thanks, Adam
