100mbps or 1000mbps

[c44151]

ok for game playing if you have got the 100mbps nic and switch and you upgrade them to the 1000mbps nic and switch is there really any increase in the pin or preformance.
also as a general rule if this doesn't make a diffrence how many computers might you need before you get the 1000mpbs equipment.
Note these computers are networked game computers.

[slinky]

If this is a home network, you won't notice any difference.

nope, no difference like slinky said.


1000 mbps are used for networks with large amounts of bandwidth being used. Games dont take up all the much

[c44151]

ok so about how many computers do I need before upgrading to the 1000mbps network.

[DVNT1]

It's not so much about the quantity of computers as it is the normal bandwidth usage.

You could run a few hundred computers on a flat 100baseT LAN and things could run reasonably fast.

On the other hand, 20 computers running 3D CAD apps with frequent saving to a network drive could really tax a 100baseT system and greatly benefit 1000BaseT speeds.

[DVNT1]

A more direct (but yet theoretical) answer to your question... Using America's Army as an example. 20 players can play okay with a server on a T1 link (1.54mbps). So if you get 50mbps from a 100baseT LAN, then 50/1.5*20= 666 computers.

[ArcticFox]

Here's my simple reasoning against getting Gigabit ethernet:

Can your drives read/write at 100MB/sec?

Seriously, folks, 10MB/sec is enough for just about everybody. My school has a huge network between different parts of the city, and what do they run? 10mb. The district office has a T1 piping in I belive, but 1MB/sec seems to do them fine.

[athlonxpguy]

Shouldn't that be 1.5 mega bytes for a T1, and 100 mega bits for a 10/100 NIC?

[DVNT1]

Originally posted by athlonxpguy
Shouldn't that be 1.5 mega bytes for a T1, and 100 mega bits for a 10/100 NIC?

T1 = 1.544 megabits per second. Megabits per second is usually shortened to Mbps
from http://whatis.techtarget.com/definit...212534,00.html


100BASE-T = The "100" in the media type designation refers to the transmission speed of 100 Mbps (megabits per second) from http://searchnetworking.techtarget.c...211490,00.html

[phenious]

Articfox, I asked DVNT1 what his average speed is for transfers on a 1000Mbit network and he said it was somewhere around 26Mega bytes a second. From what I have read most of today's drives can write an average of about 30Megabytes or so. So most computers could send fine between each other with out much loss

-: phenious :-