Are you on Giga-Bit (1000 Mbps) Ethernet?


Are you on Giga-Bit?  

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well mm not here at home but at schhol I was in German and we had Distance learning so our teacher tought from another school in the county through this hig tech tv/camera system. it lagged at first then they laid fiber optic lines and I dont think its ethernet but we are running ATM(right?), if thats right what speed is that ?

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My computer came with Gigabit built in but I have never had the equipment to utilize it. My friends 15in Powerbook should be here soon and he'll want some of my files, so that will be the first time its every used...

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My computer came with Gigabit built in but I have never had the equipment to utilize it. My friends 15in Powerbook should be here soon and he'll want some of my files, so that will be the first time its every used...

I wonder how fast it's going to transfer.

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my server has a card, im going to upgrade my hud to gigabit soon so my server can dole out data between my pcs easier when more than one uses them (using roaming profiles is pretty intensive when 2+ people logon at once (fairly often)

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Mines only 100 :(

Most schools and colleges only use 10mb cos there is no need for a faster connection (and it would also cost a lot). And if all the pc's are going to be running at 100mb then your gonna need a 10gb backbone :no: (depending how many comps).

If your gonna have say around 400 comps each one running at 100mbps and all of them accessing multimedia content on the network then it would kill a 100mb/1gb backbone.

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If your gonna have say around 400 comps each one running at 100mbps and all of them accessing multimedia content on the network then it would kill a 100mb/1gb backbone.

So why does a 4000 user company runs a 100 MB network with only a 10MB pipe to the net with no issues on speed to the net?

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I don't have a LAN at home.. just one PC, so I can't speak for there.

Work we have loads of gigabit though.. my mac is linked into a Cisco Catalyst at 1Gbps over copper (only machine in the office to be like that) - and pretty much every server is linked into the core at 1Gbps over fiber.

Bloody quick, I tell ya :D

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So why does a 4000 user company runs a 100 MB network with only a 10MB pipe to the net?

It just depends how the network is setup. And what type of files are being transferred over the network.

If its just gonna be logging in and a little bit internet usage & saving a few documents over the network, then it will be ok (You will only need a 10mb connection to the computer).

But if you are going to be transferring large multimedia files etc... its gonna use the bandwidth up very fast.

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Network conditions might be nice, but you can only download sites as fast as the other end can upload it, so I don't think that you would see much change there right?

You would see no change in internt speed, unless you are running a SUPER SLOW 1MB LAN which i dont think anyone does :) Gigabit networks are for users who work alot on their local LAN, mostly for buisnesses. I don't see why anyone else would really need it unless they are transferring HUGE files all the time. My 802.11b connection is great at my house, dont need anything more then that.

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I dont see how transferring files over the network would matter. Only connections over the internet. Plus, on a college campus, how often do you transfer FILES over the LAN?

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Plus, on a college campus, how often do you transfer FILES over the LAN?

Where I am we use the network a lot, saving a lot of files (multimedia), accessing all the lecture notes (all made in powerpoint and are around 5-20mb in size) downloading at high speeds (over 5mbps), accessing programs, MSDN stuff etc....

There is also a virus going around taking up a lot of bandwidth on our network.

The network is extremely slow at the mo cos of the virus

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