| | Re: more vital then 1gbit fiber It makes you wonder how long it will be until everything is wired with light in a household. toslink anyone?
I'd love to have everything in my household be gigabit... but really have nothing pushing me to do so, computers are barely capable of putting a huge, consistent strain on 100mbps. When media devices start being wired through my network, I might consider. | |
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  dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
kudos:18 | Re: more vital then 1gbit fiber Try moving a ripped Blu-ray or Acronis image across your LAN - like 24-46GB.
Here with two gigabit laptops, it isn't that bad.
When transferring to the other laptop - 100mbps, it takes a while. 
Pounding gigabit through a poor DI614's switch cruises at 195mbps. Eh...
Directly connected to the other laptop - it flies! 
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 | | | Re: more vital then 1gbit fiber said by Anonymous_:said by swhitney2003:It makes you wonder how long it will be until everything is wired with light in a household. toslink anyone? toslink is only 11mbps Yes that is true. What I was getting at was a move from electrical wiring to optical wiring. | |
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join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
kudos:2 | Re: more vital then 1gbit fiber Why when the copper is easily capable of Gbps+ speeds at relatively short distances. Until fiber patch cables cost me less than CAT6 patch cables, there isn't much reason to worry about fiber in the home. The biggest motivation to switch to fiber that I can think of is to avoid electrical interference. | |
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join:2004-01-21
Gurnee, IL | Re: more vital then 1gbit fiber said by openbox9:Why when the copper is easily capable of Gbps+ speeds at relatively short distances. Until fiber patch cables cost me less than CAT6 patch cables, there isn't much reason to worry about fiber in the home. The biggest motivation to switch to fiber that I can think of is to avoid electrical interference. The biggest motivation to move to fiber is the fact that CAT-6 cabling can only move 1000Base-T 100 meters in natshit free conditions (In reality no more then 50 meters). With 10Gig UTP it becomes somewhat of a joke as the most i've seen it go is 15 meters. OK when you need to go from one IGX in a facility to another, but bad if you want to do just about anything else. | |
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join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
kudos:2 | Re: more vital then 1gbit fiber And we're talking about a home network where electrical noise tends to be prevalent. Your "natshit free conditions" highlights my point for a requirement to replace copper with fiber in a residence. | |
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