10/100 question/poll

[Outlaw]

I'm right around 5mb/s. I could only wish to have 4.7Gb/s let alone 40Gb/s. lol To get back on subject. Even if they do change the technology, your house network will probably still be able to use it. I would still get the gigabit, like the links show, the prices aren't all that different.

[Drum Thumper]

I see your point there. I guess I was under the impression that he already had the 10/100 equipment so my point was why spend the money now if you don't have to, Wait till you are forced to upgrade, and get brand new, better equipment then. thats all.

Yes, rendermandan, I already have the 10/100 equipment, along with enough Cat5 to quite possibly hard wire the whole apartment complex that I live in (long story there).

I realize that I will eventually have to jump up to Gig, which means a new router, wire, switches and a NIC or two, although most if not all newer mobos are coming with gigabit NICs onboard.

But until that day comes, I plan on getting as much use as possible out of what I have on hand.

[modmansage]

i'm kinda curious in the upload speed.
i have a cousin in Las Vegas who gets 28bmps download but only 512kbps upload.

[Crazy Buddhist]

I'm in London with 14Mb/s download and 1.47mb/s upload.

is that actually true?

Apparantly yes. Her son is a networking expert and used a new technique in routing to show it could be done:

" STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- She is a latecomer to the information superhighway, but 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg is now cruising the Internet with a dizzying speed.

Lothberg's 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world, Karlstad city officials said.

In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer -- many thousand times faster than most residential connections, said Hafsteinn Jonsson, head of the Karlstad city network unit.

Jonsson and Lothberg's son, Peter, worked together to install the connection.

The speed is reached using a new modulation technique that allows the sending of data between two routers placed up to 1,240 miles apart, without any transponders in between, Jonsson said.

"We wanted to show that that there are no limitations to Internet speed," he said.

Peter Lothberg, who is a networking expert, said he wanted to demonstrate the new technology while providing a computer link for his mother.

"She's a brand new Internet user," Lothberg said by phone from California, where he lives. "She didn't even have a computer before."

His mother isn't exactly making the most of her high-speed connection. She only uses it to read Web-based newspapers"

[Crazy Buddhist]

although most if not all newer mobos are coming with gigabit NICs onboard.

... which are backwards compatible with all your existing kit.

[Crazy Buddhist]

is that actually true?

I have emailed Peter Lothberg to clarify exactly what service his ma now has and on the way discovered some interesting bits:

http://www.lightreading.com/document...&page_number=4

Peter Lothberg is the ultimate optical Internet guru, although you wouldn't guess it from his Web site, http://www.stupi.se, which displays a garden shed with the caption: "The Main Office of STUPI" (STUPI being the name of his company).

All the same, some very powerful people from the networking world come to kneel at Lothberg's feet. Cisco, for instance, says it designed its GSR12000 backbone router with his requirements in mind. And Sprint, we hear, has based much of its Internet infrastructure strategy on what Lothberg says.

Lothberg says that he was sent by God to network the planet. He may be joking.

[Outlaw]

Yes, rendermandan, I already have the 10/100 equipment, along with enough Cat5 to quite possibly hard wire the whole apartment complex that I live in (long story there).

On that, I say stay with what you have until it no longer fulfills your needs/wants, then upgrade, no reason to pay to replace something that is effecient in what you need. I thought you were looking to get 10/100 or gigabit. Sorry.

[Spawn-Inc]

i take it when a it says "2 x 10/100/1000 LAN via" it stands for 10/100 and gigabit?

[Crazy Buddhist]

i take it when a it says "2 x 10/100/1000 LAN via" it stands for 10/100 and gigabit?

Yes and if that is off a MOBO description sounds like you have dual Ethernet ports on it.

[Spawn-Inc]

yuppers

i gots me a EVGA NF68-A1



just a side question if you remove the thermal paste will that void the warranty and not allow me to RMA it?