RE: Making the Transition to Gigabit Ethernet

["Ian Lowe" <ianlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Indeed - and to make matters worse, gigabit ethernet is actually *slower*
in
some cases than 100Mb at the moment.

I switched my servers across to Gig, and used a 5 port gigabit switch -
whilst I found that "first hit" opertaions were faster, sustained
copies
quickly dropped to a much more sedate pace: as soon as you run out of cache
on the server, it's down to HDD speed again - and the server sits at a much
heftier processor load just trying to keep up.

I did a test of copying ISO images across the network, and the fast
ethernet
had the edge - only just, but it was faster...

Ian.

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Phil Harris
Sent: 14 January 2006 18:47
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Making the Transition to Gigabit Ethernet


"Fully compliant to the draft category 7 standard."

Note the use of the word "draft", which (to me) says that the
CAT7 standard
isn't nailed down yet and therefore the specs could change which may (or
may
not) mean that this cable could possibly not comply with the final
standard.

Thing is, can anyone here honestly say that CAT5E cabling doesn't support
their infrastructure needs at home? (Lets leave work needs out of the
equation for now.) I'm streaming up to six simultaneous, full DVD
bandwidth,
video data streams across my 100mbits/sec network and not getting any
problems so far with network throughput.

Phil