Craig White wrote: > > "Mark R. Myers" wrote: > > > > Here is the Achilles heal in your setup: your DSL connection. > > Even if you have 10,000,000 mbps within your home network, you are still > > limited to less then 10 Base T connection speeds with either DSL or a cable > > modem. > > So in your home you may have blazing speeds (I have 2 PCs that are 100 Base > > TX on a 10/100 switch), but your speeds to the outside world will be less > > than stellar. > > For a home network, I would not invest in 1000 mbps network connections > > unless you are streaming firewire video to a SAN. > > Mark > > > ---- > there are instances when there's a bunch of traffic between the servers > that doesn't make it out to the net. where I work we do a lot of modeling. Some of our datasets are HUGE. When upgrading our lab my original design sported a 200GB-1TB data server and several high end modeling machines with Gb connections behind a gateway firewall. That way there's be a subnetwork that cooked the data as needed... That was until datacom refused to wire the room in the chosen configuration (they will *only* wire to *their* switches in *their* wiring closet and if we go with Gb we'll have to by a X(24?)port switch that goes for something like $7,000 starting...). needless to say we gust went with 100Mb. EBo --