Free stuff (UK) again

From: Teo Zenios <teoz_at_neo.rr.com>
Date: Thu Jul 8 16:09:25 2004

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From: "Frank McConnell" <fmc_at_reanimators.org>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: Free stuff (UK) again


> 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
>

A 10Mb/sec hub is great if you just want to network a few older machines
together and don't have allot of concurrent users. I still have one 3com hub
in a box on the shelf here somewhere. I switched to 10/100 because moving
ISO images was too slow, and once you started the network became very laggy
and slow (shared 10Mb/sec). Once you have more then one user , wanted
bi-directional ability, and have machines with HD's that can more then
saturate a 10mbs hub a 100Mb/sec switch is worth the effort of running cat5
wire. Unless your moving lots of mpegs around the network Gigabit ethernet
is a bit overkill these days.
Received on Thu Jul 08 2004 - 16:09:25 BST

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