[nzlug] Network speed - Final results

[Andrew Farago]

Yes you are right but the cost is not linear. For double money you  
can not get double speed, you need to invest much more in it.
The $/performance ratio is very bad.
Andrew

On 9/08/2007, at 3:07 PM, Daniel Lawson wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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