50% off on Intel Pro 1000 T

[new2pc]

The Intel®
PRO/1000 T Desktop Adapter is a flexible 10/100/1000Mbps platform
with a best-in-class adapter that delivers Gigabit performance
over Category-5 cabling, for investment protection in existing
copper networks. Promotional price good April 1 to June 30, 2002.

 

[trikster2]

new2pc

Great find.


Do you have a link????

Thanks!

 

[ElectricLegs]

I wish I had psychic abilities so I knew where they were at!

 

[beatinitup]

just curious...what kind of switch would you use to actually negotiate the 1000mbps connectiton?

 

[Odeen]

A Gigabit Ethernet switch, naturally.

1) Gigabit Ethernet card prices are plummeting. Which is a good thing.
2) New Gigabit Ethernet cards can use existing wiring. Which is also a good thing.
3) Most windows PC's can hardly pump out 400 megabit/second.. which basically makes the network transparent to the user.. which is also a good thing.

 

[TK-421]

Perhaps he's referring to Intel's test drive program?

Intel® PRO/1000 T Desktop Adapter $54

 

[broadwayblue]

would i see any improvement using this nic (compare to 100mb) in a home network? i'd need to replace my router with a gigabit capable model too, right?

 

[Frglss]

You will see no improvement unless every component in your network supports 1000mb/s. For instance, you installed 1000bt NICs in your comps and left your (10/100 router, hub, switch) network adapter in place. The bottleneck, the network adapter, will slow the whole system to a max speed 100 mb/s.

 

[broadwayblue]

<< You will see no improvement unless every component in your network supports 1000mb/s. For instance, you installed 1000bt NICs in your comps and left your (10/100 router, hub, switch) network adapter in place. The bottleneck, the network adapter, will slow the whole system to a max speed 100 mb/s. >>



that's what i thought...not going to upgrade my 100mb linksys router with wireless access point just yet...not that they even make a gigabit one as far as i know. plus the wireless part can't even use 10% of the100mb speed yet anyway.

 

[new2pc]

http://inteleval.ententeweb.com/product_detail.asp?item=PWLA8390T

I got an e-mail and above is the link.

It also had the following in the e-mail

Intel has reduced the price of many networking products by an average of 18%, with some price reductions reaching nearly 60%. This price reduction affects over 70 SKUs, including Xircom® and Intel® branded products in single and multi-pack quantities. Reductions on wired and wireless products, including handheld adapters, access points, Type II PC Cards, Type III PC Cards featuring RealPortTM integrated connectors, and RealPort2TMmodular Type III products featuring mix-and-match technology. Contact your local reseller for details or click the read more button to find a reseller near you.

 

[TechDreamer]

Shipping is free for UPS blue two day, but tax was $4.46 for California. Total comes to $58.46
I think you can only order one? Pretty good deal for a company that should have good driver support in the future.
I have the Wd 120Gb 8MB drive and I was wondering if this adapter could keep up with it. I was thinking of using two adapters via a cat 5e crossover cable so I could put this drive in a file server.

 

[Frglss]

From storagereview: WinBench 99 pegs the JB's outer-zone transfer rates at 48.8 MB/sec and the inner zone at 29.2 MB/sec. As a result, it shares, along with the 1200BB, the highest transfer rates yet turned in by an ATA drive to date
I don't think a gb/s NIC will be a problem and certainly no reason to upgrade if you have a 10/100 or a 100 network. My 2.5 ¢ after inflation.
<edit for correction>You're correct about the 10/100 being bits and 12.5 normally being max thoughput. My bad.

Byte

<< /bi:t/ An amount of memory or data smaller than a word; usually eight bits; enough to represent one character; the smallest addressable unit of storage. On modern architectures a byte is nearly always 8 bits and characters are usually represented in ASCII in the least significant seven bits. >>

from medic.bgu

 

[Mje]

<< I have the Wd 120Gb 8MB drive and I was wondering if this adapter could keep up with it. I was thinking of using two adapters via a cat 5e crossover cable so I could put this drive in a file server. >>


Yes.



<< From storagereview: WinBench 99 pegs the JB's outer-zone transfer rates at 48.8 MB/sec and the inner zone at 29.2 MB/sec. As a result, it shares, along with the 1200BB, the highest transfer rates yet turned in by an ATA drive to date. I don't think a gb/s NIC will be a problem and certainly no reason to upgrade if you have a 10/100 or a 100 network. My 2.5 ¢ after inflation. >>


The max speed you can get on 10/100 is 12.5MByte/s, usually its much lower(10 or less in my experience, but I've seen 6 and even 4 in crappy setups). Byte = Bit*8. All lan speeds are in bits.

Edit: Your right, Byte=Bit*8. Pretend I'm dislexic.

 

[JahWren]

Almost all 64-bit cards will work in a 32-bit slot. I own the server edition of this NIC and it is fully 64/32-bit 33/66MHz compatible. Just pop it in and it works. If you want the card, check the online docs at intel before buying, but I am pretty sure that it will just fine in just about any PCI slot.

 

[mathemagician]

<< Bit = Byte*8. All lan speeds are in bits. >>



shouldn't that be Bit = Byte/8 or equivalently Byte = Bit*8 ?

 

[KLineD]

<<

<< Bit = Byte*8. All lan speeds are in bits. >>



shouldn't that be Bit = Byte/8 or equivalently Byte = Bit*8 ? >>



No, one byte is 8 bits. Bits = Bytes * 8. Think b4 posting please.

 

[LordSnailz]

No, one byte is 8 bits. Bits = Bytes * 8. Think b4 posting please.

klined: you might just want to follow your own suggestion ... mathemagician is correct.

 

[ChicagoMaroon]

<< No, one byte is 8 bits. Bits = Bytes * 8. Think b4 posting please. >>



Wow, that's going to be someone's signature.

 

[adamrick]

<< No, one byte is 8 bits. Bits = Bytes * 8. Think b4 posting please.

klined: you might just want to follow your own suggestion ... mathemagician is correct. >>



Actually, everyone is right, especially KLineD.

There are 8 bits in a byte.

8 bits = 1 byte
and
bytes * 8 = # of bits

A byte is 8x as "big" as a bit, so to convert bits to bytes, divide bits by 8.
To convert bytes to bits, multiply bytes by 8.

8 bytes (to convert, *8) = 64 bits


Good deal!

 

[TechDreamer]

My quick and dirty research has brought me to the following conclusions:

These cards only reach a maximum of about 40 Megabytes per second in real life testing (400 megabits?). The WD 120Gb with 8MB averages about 40 Megabytes per second in real life testing. So it looks like the card can pretty much keep up with the drive. I guess you could put this drive on a file server somewhere and it would feel like it was on the local system. The only thing that would actually reach that level of throughput would be saving uncompressed video to the drive. My real life project actually only requires saving and reading MpegII video, so 100 megabits per second would probably be ok. I have played a ripped DVD over 100 megabits and it ran perfect. How many ripped DVD videos do you guys think could run over 100 megabits? Two maybe? or Three? My goal would be to have Three computers capable of running the videos ( three person network). How many of these videos do you think could run over a gigabit card/network? Ten!? That would require a gigabit hub and three gigabit cards and that's more than I'm willing to spend, actually I should say that I CAN spend.

Edit: Actually only the server would need a gigabit card. The workstations could use 100 megabit cards. The hub would need one gigabit port and then regular 100 megabit ports for the workstations.

 

[lasergecko]

Does anyone know if there are linux drivers available for this card?
If so, what distributions?

Also, has anyone networked to machines and tested the performance?

Also, there is the Intel® PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapter which is only $33 and seems to just be missing some of the management features.

Does anyone know of a cheap 8 port switch (all gigabit) that could be used to network these?

 

[splice]

The cheapest 8-port gigabit switch is about $150. Go to pricewatch and look it up.

 

[mechBgon]

Keep in mind that the cheapest "Gigabit" switches are probably going to be the ones that have one Gigabit port and the other ports are 10/100. Read the fine print so you know what you're getting.

 

[amgine]

True, I went to CompUSA looking for Harry Potter and cae across Linksys's giga switch. Said on box 10/100/1000, but when I read the fine print, it only has one giga port...supposedly so you can increase bandwitdh to the server.