Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com> wrote:
> On Jul 8, 10:11, Rob O'Donnell wrote:
>> Does nobody use 10Mbps any more?
>
> It's not cool. Everyone thinks they need 100Mbps at least, or
> preferably Gigabit. The fact that their PCs mostly can't keep up with
> that seems to be immaterial, as is the fact that their web connection
> is hardly likey to keep up with the PC. On the other hand, many of our
> students in residences love it -- it's 20 times what most of them get
> from broadband at home.
When I had trouble doing NFS and scp and FTP writes to the computers
in the workroom from the computers in the living room, I noticed. I
did consider pulling out the thin coax that's been there since 1992
and replacing it with twisted pair; I might notice some performance
improvement from having 100Mb/s media between the rooms. But then I
went to the swap meet and found a US$5 10BaseT hub with a BNC for the
coax. Replacing the hub in the living room was therefore cheaper than
running new cable, easier as well, and it fixed the problem. Very
cool, and 10Mb/s is fast enough to keep me from noticing.
-Frank McConnell
Received on Thu Jul 08 2004 - 14:59:14 BST