Are You Wireless at Home

[Amused]

Yep...for my lappies.

I have gigabit throughout the house too, for large file transfers. All the desktops are wired via gigabit.

 

[AmigaMan]

Originally posted by: Amused
Yep...for my lappies.

I have gigabit throughout the house too, for large file transfers. All the desktops are wired via gigabit.

Can you actually realize gigabit speeds on commodity hardware? I know Windows has a problem getting even 100Mb, but didn't know if you were running linux. And even then, won't you saturate your PCI bus trying to get up that fast? If you can, that's awesome!

Me, I have two desktops wired, and two lappies wireless. I've had to stick to 11b and WEP because my laptop's wireless NIC won't do WPA with my Microsoft 11g router.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: AmigaMan

Originally posted by: Amused
Yep...for my lappies.

I have gigabit throughout the house too, for large file transfers. All the desktops are wired via gigabit.

Can you actually realize gigabit speeds on commodity hardware? I know Windows has a problem getting even 100Mb, but didn't know if you were running linux. And even then, won't you saturate your PCI bus trying to get up that fast? If you can, that's awesome!

Me, I have two desktops wired, and two lappies wireless. I've had to stick to 11b and WEP because my laptop's wireless NIC won't do WPA with my Microsoft 11g router.

I have noticed that Gigabit speeds are limited by harddrive speeds. On the machines with RAID-0, I get great transfer rates, especially if they are Raptors.

 

[xcript]

Yup. :thumbsup:

 

[toant103]

come and get some. Free wireless in Richmond, mine is not secured.

JK

 

[deerslayer]

No.

 

[paruhd0x]

No, its unsecure, pricy, live in a condo so people's 2.4GHz phones interfere and would knock me offline. I had wireless for a week before I took it back, it was a pain in the ass and it disconnected if I walked out of the room of the wireless point.

I'll be going with hard-wired for a long time, due to it being cheap, better performance, reliable, and secure. Rather not be worrying about someone hacking into my internal network; there are enough things that try to get past the firewall from external connection.

 

[jlee]

Heh..I'm the only one without internet at home.

This sucks.

 

[rdgr8]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
yes, for laptop and a few desktops in other rooms

same here.