Time to go faster (I.T. related)

[andyf]

I wish to increase my network speed. I have two options. Which would you suggest. My 100mbit link is now too limiting.

[Dave_S]

Gigabit mate, can you afford it though :eek:

Dave

[SpeedyPete]

We all know which is better, but what can you afford?

And depends what your doing if your limited by your network speed!

[Nicely]

Gigabit. Think you knew the answer, didn't you? :rolleyes: :D My lot need it, can afford it, but will never pay for it! :rolleyes:

[andyf]

Originally posted by Dave_S
Gigabit mate, can you afford it though :eek:

Dave


£60 for a pair of Nic's.. not gonna trouble the bank too much m8 :)

[andyf]

mmm the poll suggests gigabit :)
truely, it is over double the output of firewire, and serial ata isn't going to get any slower. obviously I wouldn't mind -both- but I don't have the space for both of 'em.

ahh oooh just realised firewire only does IP between two pc's, no ipx/spx support in there.

[marty_t3]

Gigabit?!?!? My company have me on a 28k dialup. You have no idea how lucky you are.....

Oh and since i handed in my letter of resignation this morning i can now admit that i work(ed) for IBM :D

[Dave_S]

Originally posted by andyf
£60 for a pair of Nic's.. not gonna trouble the bank too much m8 :)

No, not just the NICs, the infrastructure, Cat6 throughout etc!

Dave

[andyf]

Heh don't need any of that nonsense dave :)

[andyf]

Originally posted by marty_t3
Gigabit?!?!? My company have me on a 28k dialup. You have no idea how lucky you are.....

Oh and since i handed in my letter of resignation this morning i can now admit that i work(ed) for IBM :D


Marty, it's not for work, it's for home :)

Work's internet link is appalling from this office. They've moved 6 odd people over from Preston to work here also, and they're having stupid problems with the network. They've been taken away from a major backbone point, and shoved on a (highly shared) 2mbit line.

[mattpayne]

Gigabit all the way...

I take it this is for your home network??

:) companies are too tight to fork out for fast expensive toys like that!

Gigabit cards are great though... just using one, connected to my 100mbit switch increased the network throughput a whole bunch.. :) gig each end would be beaut!

[Sideways14a]

I would suggest you reconfigure your network. 100mbits aint all that slow.
We have a load of IP based video conferencing kit here and even at 384k a sec over a switch stack that has sod all traffice it is still rubbish quality. We have no hope of running at full 3MBs that it can do. However if we bypass our switches and go straight to our router it works fine, so bandwidth aint everything..Somethings iffy with our network setup....Prob all the damm hubs we have littering the place :rolleyes:

[andyf]

Originally posted by sideways14a
I would suggest you reconfigure your network. 100mbits aint all that slow.

Sorry, but as I didn't disclose what I do at home I find it odd that you are suggesting I reconfigure my network. :confused: :)

100mbit is a slow line between computers. Max throughput is what, 12 mbytes a sec? A single 40gb hard disk could dish that out without breaking a sweat. For my home configuration I want a network system that won't be the bottleneck. I'd like my expensive disk system to work for it's living so if it does die I know it's died doing it's job, not gathering dust spinning at quarter speed :D



We have a load of IP based video conferencing kit here and even at 384k a sec over a switch stack that has sod all traffice it is still rubbish quality. We have no hope of running at full 3MBs that it can do. However if we bypass our switches and go straight to our router it works fine, so bandwidth aint everything..Somethings iffy with our network setup....Prob all the damm hubs we have littering the place :rolleyes:

Tell me about it dude. A properly configured network makes companies happy :D But with bean-counters watching over everything, there's always some compromised link somewhere. This office for example, houses about 12 of us doing similar jobs. Due to the nature of the job there's usually a large amount of file copy operation going on before we can start anything, or when we've finished a job. Our link to the Storage Area Network is ... 10mbit. Yes, 10 whole megabits to the main server. Luckily it's a great 10mbit switch :D but that's beside the point - Last week I had to review some Graphics software that was 4 CD's big. Naturally the CD's aren't physically available (joy) so it was all dumped on the network drive. 2.4 gigabytes over 10mbit. Still, it's not all that bad - I virtually finished reading my book!

[Dave_S]

Ahh I see, sorry, thought this was for work / business, not home :rolleyes:

:)


Max throughput is what, 12 mbytes a sec? A single 40gb hard disk could dish that out without breaking a sweat.

Yeah at an absolute MAX, more like about 7-8 average, so yeah a decent HDD would be spanking it! lol

Dave

[Vez]

Then again andy your only gonna get what you pay for with cheaper cards....prolley better to spend a few more pennies and get some decent intel cards. I wouldnt have it any other way ;)

[AshT_200]

If you can afford it, ServerNET, direct PCI connectivity. :D But go Gigabit, because I doubt you would ever need faster.

[Cookie]

Gigabit optical is the way to go.

Also if the machines can take it use 2 cards in each (all our servers at work have multiple cards, although they do have the grunt to make use of them)

C.

[Vez]

Yep multiple cards are the way forward, gonna double up my 100mbits instead me thinks, even two CDroms copying data to my hard drive (ala those cd's you lent me andy) werent even stressing it (and I was playing Ut2003 at the time :D).

[AshT_200]

Originally posted by Cookie
Gigabit optical is the way to go.

Also if the machines can take it use 2 cards in each (all our servers at work have multiple cards, although they do have the grunt to make use of them)

C.

Only if the Network Switches support the std the NICs use.