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how many people have gigabit networks in there homes yet?

zanejohnson

zanejohnson

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just wanted to know, i have a gigabit router, but the only machine in our house that has a gigabit nic is mine, and on my router everything plugged into it has to be gigabit or it limits all ports to 100mbps...

so who all is sporting an all gigabit network in home?
 
I do.

Got it recently to smooth out play back from my NAS to my PS3 and to speed up transfers from my server to my NAS.
 
I do. it's a hold over from when I had an HTPC and was frequently transferring large files between it and my desktop.
 
I got a gigabit network but I have not really tweaked anything yet, and I'm using consumer level switches, so I only get a bit over 100mbps. One of these days I need to tweak it some more. For what I do it's more then good enough though. The biggest transfers I do are backups, and those are done nightly when I'm in bed.
 
I upgraded to gigabit about 2 months ago since I am constantly sharing files between my file server and other systems. The increase in speed is definitely noticeable, especially when transferring large files (I went from about 3-5 mb/sec to 20-30 mb/sec). Videos also load much faster on my PS3.
 
We have a bunch of Macs, which have all had gigabit standard for like 5 years. The only machine without it is the old Windows box.
 
Originally posted by: LtPage1
We have a bunch of Macs, which have all had gigabit standard for like 5 years. The only machine without it is the old Windows box.
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Yawn. Every motherboard I've seen since 2004 has had a gigabit port.
 
God I wish 802.11g was anywhere near gigabit. Transferring large files to my laptop always requires a bringing out the ol' ethernet cable, even then its only 10/100.

The only time I was even exposed to gigabit speeds was a crossover cable between my computer and a friend of mine's where we both had gigabit onboard NICs. I'd never seen speeds that fast, at one point I think the read speed of my hard drive was bottlenecking transfers, maybe I was imagining things.
 
Originally posted by: daniel1113
Originally posted by: LtPage1
We have a bunch of Macs, which have all had gigabit standard for like 5 years. The only machine without it is the old Windows box.
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Yawn. Every motherboard I've seen since 2004 has had a gigabit port.
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True that!

gigabit is so cheap these days there's no reason not to do it if you have the need.
 
I've had gigabit NICs and a gigabit switch with jumbo packet support since 2006! It won't matter for internet related BS as I highly doubt you're even capable of maxing out a 100mb connection anywhere in the US, and for most people 10mb! But internally with the proper support it's pretty amazing. Can stream HD Blu-Ray Discs with no buffer time, etc.
 
Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
I run a sneaker-net at home! 😛
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I'm trying to upgrade. Investigating NAS, probably building out from a barebones laptop mobo based system with low power consumption. I doubt it will be gigabit, though. I don't think my laptop supports it and am almost positive that my current PC's mainboard's NIC doesn't. I'm just hoping the performance won't suck compared to what I get on my main PC.
 
Originally posted by: LtPage1
We have a bunch of Macs, which have all had gigabit standard for like 5 years. The only machine without it is the old Windows box.
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go fap your vile smugness into some other thread.
 
Originally posted by: aircooled
I do on my desktop machine. All the rest are laptops running 802.11g.
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Right, so's my laptop. Guess I'm stuck with that. Or, maybe I could upgrade the NIC in the laptop. The gigabit laptops started just after I got mine in November 2006.
 
i have no problem streaming HD content from my server to my PC on my 100mb network, gimme a sec and i'll post a screeny to prove it..
 
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