1000 Mbps Gigabite Card

[Terminal23]

Anyone usiing these?If so, how fast are they and would they make much difference connected to a Broadband connection?

[DVNT1]

yes, none

[ironforge]

They will not make any difference in your internet connection. Unless you have an OC-12 or two running to your house.

For transferring large files locally among PC's on the LAN.. you will probably see improvement..

[Terminal23]

Thanks for the info

[phenious]

DVNT1, Do you know what your average transfer speed is between 2 computers on your LAN both using Gigibit over a switched enviroment? Curious to see if its worth my time. on my 100Mbit network I transfer at about 8MB a sec between my computers.

-: phenious :-

[DVNT1]

phenious: I have tested it but I don't recall the rate now. I'll test it tomorrow and post the results.

[phenious]

Thanks

-: phenious :-

[DVNT1]

I'm showing 221.5Mb as a max since I enabled NetStat Live to watch the rate. This is just daily use on a production server.

When I test using WS_ping Propack I get 262.12 megabits/sec. I was using a ping packet size of 16,383 bytes.

Take under consideration this is a production server that has other traffic most of the time, so peak should be even higher.

[Jeordiewhite]

That's pretty darn good, I've been considering running a gigabit switch myself instead of this linksy router 10/100. I'm sure it will be worth it, but I will have to wait awhile on getting it, I figure it will be about 200 dollars for an 8 port switch I've seen and a few network cards ought to do it since my motherboard didn't come with onboard gigabit networking.

[phenious]

Ok so the Jump from 100Mbit to 1000Mbit gave a ~18MB a second increase... not bad... dont know if its worth the cost though... Ill have to do some more reading. Thanks DVNT1

-: phenious :-