8 Jul
2004
8 Jul
'04
9:09 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank McConnell" <fmc(a)reanimators.org>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: Free stuff (UK) again
Pete Turnbull <pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com>
wrote:
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.
On Jul 8, 10:11, Rob O'Donnell wrote:
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
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.