Re: Gigabit LANs - Overkill for home?

["Shmern" <shmern@xxxxxxx>]

The NICS are only part of the story, unfortunately the switches are still
considerably dearer than 10/100 ones. As for it Gig needed for home, of
course it is, just as much as remote controls for light switches that are
actually within reach ;o)

But seriously these days, with larger file sizes on disk, i.e. Movies, ISO
images etc.. then Gigabit connectivity is gonna help, but it will show up
bottlenecks elsewhere in the system, as Chris points out the disk
subsystem.

Personally I'd love Gig at home, at the very least for the server/servers,
but costs are just too much for the switch end of things.

Shmern

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark McCall" <lists@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 2:58 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Gigabit LANs - Overkill for home?


> Just noticed a Gigabit NIC on eBuyer for around £50 inc VAT
> http://tinyurl.com/iw93
>
> Anyone running Gigabit LANs at home yet?  If so is it an ego thing :) 
Or
is
> it genuinely needed?
>
> M.
>



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