Re: Gigabit Ethernet

[Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 31 May 2002 11:03 am, Kenneth Watt wrote:
> Just a quick question and I don't want it to become a raging debate
;-)
>
> But why would you need such high data speeds on a home LAN?
>
> Like I say, I'm not starting a debate I'm just curious as to the
uses
> for such a thing as I can only think of one use personally and
that's
> when I start mucking about with huge MP3 drives.

If it were cheap enough, it'd be for the same reason as you put cat5 
everywhere, future-proofing. There will come a day when GB ethernet is the
norm, especially for the likes of us, when movies are streamed from a PC to
many TV's or rooms around the home (especially in larger homes like Mark's
& 
Umar's)

That's why I would have it, and why I have cabled for it (though I guess
some 
of the cable terminations might not be up to spec, but that's easy to
fix.

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