[nzlug] Network speed - Final results

[Daniel Lawson]

Andrew Farago wrote:
> Hello all,
> After so many fiddling around the settings I could achieve ~700-Mbps
> with cross over cable. I had the same speed over a well configured
> switch. The firewall could produce ~400-Mbps speed. This results are
> possible only in lab environment I think. In the real life You must be
> very happy with 200-300Mbps but your Internet connection will cut back
> it much more.
> Currently I can not see too much meaning to build a gigabit LAN. 

200-300Mbps is still 2-3 times what you get over 100Mbit, and that is
often a good enough reason to go better than 100Mbit.