Re: [OFF TOPIC] Wiring up home network

[Ez-Aton]

I would second that. Check MPG compression rate, and you'll get the details as to the transfer rate required. 1Gb/s is overkill for home usage, especially when home computers still tend to be limited by the PCI b/w, which enforces a sum of up to 133MB/s for all PCI interfaces. It means that if you copy from a 1Gb/s network (assuming you would get a full 100MB/s), you would write them down to the disk at a speed of 33MB/s total, which is rather slow, comparing to todays transfer rates. Moreover, your sound and USB would stutter at the time of this specific transfer. No need for 1Gb/s at home. Ez Ehud Karni wrote: On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:20:56 +0100, Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you intend to have the storage in one machine and view a movie on another having 1Gbps network would help. It's not critical but it will help. That is a gross exaggeration. The typical movie is just about 1Mbit/s and even when I had just a 10 Mbit hub, my daughters view movies over my home net without any glitches. Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D <http://www.keyserver.net/> Better Safe Than Sorry ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]