On 5/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:daz@damnetwork.net">daz@damnetwork.net</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
What are the recommendations for switches and NIC&#39;s?&nbsp;&nbsp;Also, how can I tell<br>if my current ethernet cables can hang with the new speeds?<br></blockquote></div><br>I recently upgraded at home too.&nbsp; The NIC I got for the Linux Boxen was a Hawking HGA32T.&nbsp; The drivers are included in the kernel nowadays.&nbsp; My Mac (or should I say Debian PPC) already had a gigabit card embedded.&nbsp; I also got a cheap D-Link DGS-105 Switch.&nbsp; They are working fine.&nbsp; Checkout this link on Wikipedia:
<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit_Ethernet">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit_Ethernet</a><br>It says you can run Gigabit speeds on cat5.&nbsp; You may be able to get away with this in a home office, but I wouldn&#39;t risk it in the real world. YMMV though.
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