How fast is your network?

[Red Squirrel]

This is mine:

Not that impressive, but better then what I had before I went cat6 for all the main wiring. Problem is I still have two cat5 patch cables involved. I have one plugging my PC to my jack, my jack then goes to the patch panel over cat 6, then it's all cat5 to the switch and to the server. I will change that next time I do an order from monoprice. Shipping is 100 bucks so I need to make it worthwhile.

 

[rudeguy]

wrong forum

/nik

 

[spidey07]

Pretty piss poor there at under 400 Mbs. The year is almost 2010 - 10 Gbs is how we roll on LAN. 40 Gbs on the WAN/MAN.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Pretty piss poor there at under 400 Mbs. The year is almost 2010 - 10 Gbs is how we roll on LAN. 40 Gbs on the WAN/MAN.

I'm talking mostly about home networks here.

I doubt most people have multi mode fiber on their LAN. I heard some places they have fiber to the house though, so guess you'd want fiber to the PC to get the full experience. But kinda pricy for the equipment.

Once I add in some cat6 patch cords I am hoping to get closer to 1gbps. The cat5e is the bottleneck. I'm actually surprised to be getting over 100mbps.

 

[Zargon]

I'm talking mostly about home networks here.

I doubt most people have multi mode fiber on their LAN. I heard some places they have fiber to the house though, so guess you'd want fiber to the PC to get the full experience. But kinda pricy for the equipment.

not that it would matter since no one is passing out bandwidth higher than like 24 mbps

cat6 shouldnt be showing any advantages in short runs than your cat5e was...right?

I've got my important stuff on a lil gigabit switch, and my 360 and that switch go to my ddwrt'd wrt54g-tm

also the second lan card on my server goes straight to the router



but if I ever rich and antsy I have about 600 ft of multimode in the closet leftover from a work project

 

[TurtleCrusher]

/straightface

My internet speed is 100.

/endstraightface

 

[TwiceOver]

Pretty useless without knowing your network.

 

[Skeeedunt]

Rocking 100Mbit here, along with Turbo G. Yeah you read that right baby.

 

[spidey07]

I'm talking mostly about home networks here.

I doubt most people have multi mode fiber on their LAN. I heard some places they have fiber to the house though, so guess you'd want fiber to the PC to get the full experience. But kinda pricy for the equipment.

Once I add in some cat6 patch cords I am hoping to get closer to 1gbps. The cat5e is the bottleneck. I'm actually surprised to be getting over 100mbps.

Multimode fiber is dead technology except for short distances because of the speeds involved. Cat5e is perfectly fine for 1000 Base-T. 10 gig over copper is cat6 only. Basically you have an IO bottleneck with some protocol inefficiency thrown in.

If you want help on how to optimize go over to networking forum.

 

[frostedflakes]

I can get like 2.4MB/s over my 802.11G. Don't have a wired network set up.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Multimode fiber is dead technology except for short distances because of the speeds involved. Cat5e is perfectly fine for 1000 Base-T. 10 gig over copper is cat6 only. Basically you have an IO bottleneck with some protocol inefficiency thrown in.

If you want help on how to optimize go over to networking forum.

Isn't 10Gbit over copper still experimental at this point? I never seen it actually in use, only heard that they found a way to make it possible.

And yeah I may have a protocol bottleneck. I was actually installing windows in a VM on the same server that file is coming from. Download speed was fluctuating.

 

[Zargon]

I can 10gb cards for my 3com 4200g's, its copper, but it aint cat6

http://www.3com.com/prod/en_ap_ap/detail.jsp?tab=features&sku=3C17666

XFP's

they aren't cheap either

I am begging to be able to get a few to do the main backbone switches with them instead of them being gigabit.

 

[theevilsharpie]

Once I add in some cat6 patch cords I am hoping to get closer to 1gbps.

I think you'll be a little disappointed with the performance increase of Cat6 patch cords.

 

[skyking]

I think you'll be a little disappointed with the performance increase of Cat6 patch cords.

Rofl!

 

[Shawn]

wireless g