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.

In a business setting, sure, the faster the better. But a Gb network for a
couple of PCs at home connected to DSL? I think that is a bit of overkill.
Even streaming video from one box to another at 100BaseTX won't slow the
network down.
Why invest in a Gb switch when it is not necessary in a home setting?
Mark

"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 --"