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D-Link 655 Gigabit Wireless Router - $119 w/free shipping

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Athena

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We're in the process of upgrading some networks to gigabit and have been looking at networking equipment. Circuit City is selling the D-Link 655 router for $20 less than anyone else right now and will ship it for free.

Their prices on other gigabit components aren't that good but this seems to be the best deal going for a good quality "N" version gigabit router.
 
Thinking about setting up a print server/file server in another room, but don't like the fact that speeds would be slow accessing media and software over a 100Mb connection, as opposed to a hard drive installed in my computer.

Has it been shown gigabit connections approach the speed of a locally attached HD? I'm not talking breakneck speeds, just comparable is fine for me.
 
Don't know about throughput, but latency will definitely be much worse with all the overhead of TCP/IP stack and NAS. You'll have to wait a while before each data transfer begins.
 
Originally posted by: deeznuts
Has it been shown gigabit connections approach the speed of a locally attached HD? I'm not talking breakneck speeds, just comparable is fine for me.
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1 gigabit =~ 100 megabytes, taking into account the parity bits. That seems plenty fast to me.
 
Originally posted by: deeznuts
Thinking about setting up a print server/file server in another room, but don't like the fact that speeds would be slow accessing media and software over a 100Mb connection, as opposed to a hard drive installed in my computer.

Has it been shown gigabit connections approach the speed of a locally attached HD? I'm not talking breakneck speeds, just comparable is fine for me.
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I wouldn't worry about speed issues over a gigabit connection. In my experience, it is very comparable to accessing things from a local disk. Heck... at the moment, I access my file server from my main box via 802.11g (no wires from the basement to the 2nd floor... yet...), and with the exception of large file transfers (DVD images, VMs, etc.) it's fine by me.
 
Originally posted by: deeznuts
Thinking about setting up a print server/file server in another room, but don't like the fact that speeds would be slow accessing media and software over a 100Mb connection, as opposed to a hard drive installed in my computer.

Has it been shown gigabit connections approach the speed of a locally attached HD? I'm not talking breakneck speeds, just comparable is fine for me.
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gigabit = 125mbyte/sec in both directions. Find me one hard drive with those kind of transfer rates (hint: they're close but not there yet).
 
I guess the issue is how much overhead is there and what's the effective bandwidth? It's like PCI bandwidth is 133MB/s but after factoring in overhead, you'd be lucky to get 120 if not less.
 
Originally posted by: McFlyinCA
All I want is a gigabit wireless router with VoIP and print server. Nice deal though, good find OP.
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In my case, it usually only average an 25% (about 30MB/s) utilization when transfering a large file.
 
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