8 Jul
2004
8 Jul
'04
7:59 a.m.
Pete Turnbull <pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com> wrote:
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.