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Re: patheticMost home lans are still 10/100? I haven't seen a router or even an onboard ethernet port on a motherboard that doesn't support gigabit in quite a few years, among those that actually go to the trouble of building a home lan, and don't just rely on slower wifi as most people do.
I think most of us (myself included) have upgraded to gigabit by now. |
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"Most home lans are still 10/100?"
Absolutely. DSLR and it's readers do NOT represent the majority of homes it represents a very small section of what people really have. |
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battleup
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2012-Sep-27 12:28 pm
As far as I've seen any router made in the past few years (computers also) is going to have GbE on it. DSLR may not be representative but someone who is going to buy a 300mbit package is going to know they need more than a 100mbit switch, router or NIC card, not to mention unless you really haven't upgraded anything in your house in the past few years your computer equipment will support it too.
You always seem to hate on DSLR and yet post here all the time. What gives? Are you just that thick that you feel the need to let it be known how much you dislike this website... on this website? |
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He runs an ISP...and adds a dose of reality to some of these topics. Like the fact that most folks don't care about more than a few megabits per second, as long as those few megabits are reasonably low-latency and jitter-free...and are usable 24x7 to most of the Internet.
Also, there are still routers made in the past six months that are only 10/100. They're also less than $30 apiece. Cheap computers...same thing. Granted, if you're paying $300 per month for an internet connection your stuff is probably all gigabit, but I'll let you in on a secret: there's a very, VERY small percentage of the Internet that can run at 300M down. This is from experience...I've used Mac Pros running Windows 7, tied to a campus network (good peering and transit) at a gigabit, with 10G to the peering point and 10G pipes to places where they were needed...and gotten less than 300 Mbps on every speed test I came across. This is with high-end Cisco gear on every hop, no throttling and no congestion (the entire campus averages 300-400 Mbps at this point, and that's with a supercomputer or two).
As much as I think gigabit symmetric on GFiber is cool, you'll find that even 300M is next to impossible to max, and will be for the next two or three years. 100M is about the fastest residential connection where you aren't running headlong into diminishing returns. |
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I've been on gigabit for several years and put everyone I help on gigabit as well. |
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You know, I frequent another specialized website that's music related and people over there also say that the people on THAT website do NOT represent the majority of people, yet when you go out to shows and talk... The opinions between the lay people and the forum posters frequently align...
So funny though that you said this today... |
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said by MovieLover76:I think most of us (myself included) have upgraded to gigabit by now. I checked the cost of upgrading to gig LAN. I will upgrade as I retire 10/100 hardware and replace it with 1000 hardware, and not one ms sooner. |
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34764170 (banned)
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2012-Sep-27 4:46 pm
The equipment is ridiculously cheap nowadays. |
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said by battleop:"Most home lans are still 10/100?"
Absolutely. DSLR and it's readers do NOT represent the majority of homes it represents a very small section of what people really have. I'd say that close to half of the small businesses I work with are still 10/100. They may use gigabit to link switches together, or to plug their servers in, but the workstations are still plugged into 100mbit/s ports. And why not? Gigabit switches are becoming more and more affordable, but fast ethernet switches are cheaper yet, and they comfortably meet the needs of many customers. |
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It's hard to convince a customer they need a gigabit switch for a network that's total usage isn't even 10mb. |
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said by iansltx:As much as I think gigabit symmetric on GFiber is cool, you'll find that even 300M is next to impossible to max, and will be for the next two or three years. Not sure about you, but last I checked things can change quite a bit in 2 or 3 years. |
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iansltx
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2012-Sep-27 11:51 pm
Yep. $20 says that 24 months from now you still won't need 300M for 99% of web sites. Of course, that's mostly because there will still be people who can't get 50M at that point. |
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jcremin
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2012-Sep-28 12:52 am
said by iansltx:Yep. $20 says that 24 months from now you still won't need 300M for 99% of web sites. I'll go a step farther and say that over 90% of the population won't have a need for 100 Mbps by the year 2020. In other words, I'm saying that I believe less than 10% of the population will have any real need for even 100 megs for at least 8 more years. |
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it kinda sucks when things go good for awhile then they just peter out. Seriously, what stopped the growth of broadband? |
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Cable and Teleco greed with a splash of incompetent government representation is what stopped broadband. |
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