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NYHoustonman

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May jump on this to complete the loop on gigabit networking in my apartment... What would be a decent gigabit NIC to use on an old Athlon XP 2400+ server? There seems to be a good deal more to selecting a NIC these days (jumbo packet support, CPU offloading, etc).
Was looking at this.
 
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Emulex

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stick to the intel pro 1000 pci express or the roswell gigabit pci express.

pci is not a good choice. shared bus. maybe pci-x ; definitely pci express.

 
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NYHoustonman

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Originally posted by: Emulex
stick to the intel pro 1000 pci express or the roswell gigabit pci express.

pci is not a good choice. shared bus. maybe pci-x ; definitely pci express.
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The machine only has PCI slots, should have mentioned that :-X.
 
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Emulex

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well i guess if you only have pci; keep in mind the pci bus is shared and its 133MB and gigabit is 100MB so you will have to give up some mojo to other things like ATA controller/etc.

my guess is you may hit 99% on 100megabit but you'll peak around 12% on gigabit (120megabit).
 
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California Roll

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I have a mix of Cat 5 and Cat 5e on my current 10/100 network. Do I need to replace the Cat 5? I know Cat 5e should be ok but some people recommend Cat 6 since 5e's max cap is 1000?
 
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Originally posted by: California Roll
I have a mix of Cat 5 and Cat 5e on my current 10/100 network. Do I need to replace the Cat 5? I know Cat 5e should be ok but some people recommend Cat 6 since 5e's max cap is 1000?
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You should get some Monster cable for sure.

In all seriousness, just let the devices auto negotiate. If they don't hit gigabit, upgrade the cable.
 
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California Roll

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I just wanted to say THANKS for this. After setting this up and enabling 9k jumbo frames I went from 10-15MB/s to 80-90MB/s on file transfers across my home network. Woot.
 
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cparker

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As to using a pci gigabit NIC, I picked up the 10 dollar Encore card (Newegg) and put it on several older machines that only had pci slots. It's well worth it. Transfers files to/from my WHS box at 55 MB/sec, which seemed pretty fast to me. (I was using a Dlink "green" gigabit switch, not the Trendnet)
 
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California Roll

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That's a pretty informative article. I was really surprised at my speeds. I was expecting something in the 40-60MB/s range, which I would have been more than happy with. My #s make sense now going with the info on the article. All of the gigabit nics are integrated in mobos, none older than 6 months. Enabling 9k jumbo frames on each nic did improve speed by about 10-15MB/s. The slowest hard drive on the network is a WD10EADS, which is actually pretty fast for a green drive. It's definitely a bit slower writing to this drive as opposed to going the other way and writing to a Samsung F1. I'm sure this didn't help but I did go with Cat6 cable as I needed new cabling and the price difference was under 50 cents as opposed to 5e.

I didn't think I'd get this excited over networking :)

 
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cparker

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Great article about gigabit networking. Thanks!!! The client pc that I was using in my own "test" was over 3 years old and used an older Seagate drive that was limited to Sata 2 because of the motherboard's limitations. All things considered, I think that getting 55 MB/sec on that system was pretty good with a 10 dollar pci adapter. Probably not affecting performance nearly as much as the drives.
 
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