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Re: gigabit said by swhitney2003:If we ever reach these 100mbps speeds we're going to have to make the new home networking standard gigabit. I know it exists, but the majority is 100mbps. Prepare to upgrade your networking hardware =P Agreed. Any service offering over 50 Mbps would be wasted by using anything less than Gig-E gear in the PC and home network.
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| said by BosstonesOwn:HAHA !! Done already ! Gotta love Cisco refurbs Same here... but do you have 10Gig-E yet?
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| said by Done_Posting:said by BosstonesOwn:HAHA !! Done already ! Gotta love Cisco refurbs Same here... but do you have 10Gig-E yet? - Tate No, but there is no reason to. Computer hard drives can't move data that fast, so there is no point unless you are a service host, in which case it shouldn't be in your basement, it should be in a professional hosting center. |
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| said by Cjaiceman:No, but there is no reason to. Computer hard drives can't move data that fast, so there is no point unless you are a service host, in which case it shouldn't be in your basement, it should be in a professional hosting center. True, but what if I want to turn my basement into a co-lo center? There's plenty of room down there and God knows it's cold enough...
Getting back to reality, sure there's no need for 10Gig-E yet, and there probably won't be for quite a while. I can dream though, can't I?
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Excuse me? PCs have been capable of Gig-E since at least 2003 (desktops, not workstations); the holdup at the home network end has been the router. However, most draft-N routers include gigabit switches. Further, you are apparently making an assumption that 100 Mbps (FastEthernet) network cards in home PCs are half-duplex. For shame; FastEthernet standardized on full-duplex in 1998 (the only reason half-duplex is there at all is for backward-compatibility with existing h-d-only networks).
The motherboard in my current PC (which I built) is the ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe, and features onboard Intel-based gigabit Ethernet, yet it dates back to 2003, and it's not even ASUS' oldest motherboard with onboard gigabit (that honor goes to the original P4C800 Deluxe, which featured gigabit Ethernet from 3Com). Nowadays, *every* nVidia nForce 6-series chipset motherboard includes onboard gigabit (either single or dual) as standard. Only Intel *forces* you to settle for mere onboard FastEthernet (and that's only at the low end)). |
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