[nzlug] Network speed - Final results

[Mark Foster]

Remember its not necessarily all about gig-to-the-desktop.

Gig capable infrastructure will give you much better performance in your 
backbone than 100Meg equip - because your couple of workstations are never 
going to saturate its capability.

Standard is to have your backhaul at 10 times the desktop capability 
anyway, so I see no reason to discourage buying Gig capable hardware (esp 
your active switching gear, perhaps).

Most 'real' high speed gear uses Fibre these days anyway?

Mark.



On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Andrew Farago wrote:

> 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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