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I have +</I>>>><i> quite frankly never really worried about this as our speed was +</I>>>><i> quite decent. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> What you need to do is compare the speed of your router/switches to +</I>>><i> the speed your ISP gives you. Typically, the ISP speed is the +</I>>><i> bottleneck. The faster router/switches can only exceed the ISP's +</I>>><i> bandwidth when you're going from machine to machine in your house, +</I>>><i> which may be worth it if you do a lot of large file transfers. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> My ISP serves "downloads up to speeds of 6Mbps" ... I also realize +</I>><i> the if using DSL that is all depends on the location of the house and +</I>><i> telco hardware. +</I>><i> +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> And, of course, even if you upgrade the router/switches, any +</I>>><i> particular system with a slower NIC won't see the benefit unless it +</I>>><i> upgrades as well. +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> All of our NIC's are gigabit NIC's. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> So would it be worthwhile to upgrade to gigabit router/switches. +</I>><i> Actually, now that I think of it, we do use my computer as the music +</I>><i> server for the house ... we have 5 computers on the go at all times. +</I>><i> I don't sleep much. :-) +</I>><i> +</I> +As someone would say... that al depends. +For the speed from each computer to the intenet, you are safe. The ISP +speed is the limit. + +If you talk about moving files between computers inside your home, you +should try to keep gigabit interconnection everywhere. Some numbers: + +- i have an Linksys WRT320N at home. Raw performace measured with + iperf between win and linux is about 800Mbps. +- real performance is much worse, copying from my win server to my linux + box (win share mounted on linux), gives about 500 Mbps +- as music server, if you use mp3 even at 320 Kbps, you can serve about + 1500 simultaneous streams... at 100Mb, only 150 ;) +- if you play videos for example mounting a shared drive on clients: + playing an mkv HD video, that totem says is compressed about 3MBps, + uses a bit more, about 4Mbps (read via samba client from linux), + so bandwith is pretty fine even at 100Mb +- the only problem is when you want to copy a big file and don't want to + wait... that is where gigabit really pays off. Copying a 1.2 Gb file + took 30 secs on gigabit, that means 300 on 100Mb, so five minutes.. + +So, for usual media streaming, you are fine at 100, but for heavy file +movement, gigabit is worth it. + +You can leave your router alone, and get a decent giga switch for +about 100 euros. + +<A HREF="http://www.appinformatica.com/hubs-switch-linksys-switch-8p-10-100-1000.php">http://www.appinformatica.com/hubs-switch-linksys-switch-8p-10-100-1000.php</A> +<A HREF="http://www.appinformatica.com/hubs-switch-connection-switch-rack-19-16ptos-10-100-1000.php">http://www.appinformatica.com/hubs-switch-connection-switch-rack-19-16ptos-10-100-1000.php</A> + +(sorry for the spanish shop, but it was what I know well) + + +-- +J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com> \ Winter is coming... +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="007212.html">[Mageia-discuss] About routers and switches and Mbit/s +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#7207">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#7207">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#7207">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#7207">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |