Ez-Aton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
I am sorry, but this is misleading. PCIe is here, with (pulling from memory, too lazy to check) 2.5Gbps per lane. I think you can have up to 32 lanes (I don't know if 32-lane HW exists today). All the other arguments aside, PCI is not a bottleneck if you are just a bit forward-looking. I doubt that you can go into a neighbourhood computer store today and buy a non-Gbps NIC. It does not make much sense to me to lay less than Gbps cables today, unless - and I haven't checked - the prices are drastically different. I don't see another relevant question discussed here: How about not laying cables at all? Having everything wireless? Pros and cons? Has anyone here done it recently? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.goldshmidt.org ================================================================= 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]
