I know that is allows for greater bandwidth and is faster, but does that really matter when you are only running cable internet through it? It seems most useful for servers and networks but would it help give me better pings and less lag while playing online games?
What is Gigabit Lan?
- Thread starter Hanzou
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Gigabit is faster, but it really is only spare bandwith for online gaiming use, your 100 megabit/s lan is much much faster then your cable internet is, and getting gigabit lan is pointless unless you are running a T3 line or something similiar or if you are running a server. So you dont need it. right now cable is about 2mbps in speed, so it doesnt come close to filling up the 100mbps of 10/100, let alone the 1000 of gigabit lan, so oyu would have no improvement.
main benefit will be large file transfers within the local LAN. even small files you will hardly notice the time difference. gaming within the lan will be unaffected as well. a 8 ping vs. a 15 ping won't matter much.
zephyrprime
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It won't give you better pings. Game lans are really unintensive as far as network bandwidth goes.
the only time i would see a gigabit lan make lan gaming faster would be running ut2k3 with 1000 or more players in one map or something.
AgaBoogaBoo
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Also, today's cable modems won't even give a connection speed of 1000mbits/sec, instead even though your card/mobo will be capable of gigabit lan, it'll operate and show up as a 100mbit connection.
Unless you need bandwith needs over the basic 100mbps, then it's useless. Cable in my area has a peak of 3mbps 
. Only use is if you're hosting a server in a datacenter, where they have huge bandwidth (ie ~500mbps).
. Only use is if you're hosting a server in a datacenter, where they have huge bandwidth (ie ~500mbps).Yeah I thought that the gigabit lan would give me no added performance, as I only play games and do little extreme high bandwidth downloading. Thanks for the help guys.
AgaBoogaBoo
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Now that Internet connection speed at home is reaching somewhere between 50 - 80Mbps in my country, I think Gigabit Lan is nothing but good.
i love how apple sells macs partly with the gigabit feature knowing that many mac users are home users without a t3 line in their home:disgust:
"Speed" can be a misleading term: If you refer to speed as throughput, then the extra bandwidth can improve things considerably, if you are talking about the time it take to get a packet through the network (latency) then media speed (as used by most manufacturers) doesn't mean squat.
If a packet enters the system/component at a gigabit today, and leaves the system tomorrow, it is still considered a gigabit component (because you are indeed clocking traffic / throughput at gigabit speeds). The latency (as possibly demonstrated by a PING time) would be horrendous, but the "speed" is still gigabit.
Bandwidth and latency are two separate critters. The amount of traffic passed is not necessarily relative to the time it took to get through the system/component.
In some/many cases, the higher bandwidth going into a congested system is more likely to put the traffic at risk of being dropped. The packets are buffered / stored and subject to time expiration. Latency through a congested system is higher than latency through an uncongested system. Adding components that amplify the congestion will amplify the latency as well.
The point being: as with just about anything else, some planning and design is always a good thing. Deciding what the system / network is intended to do and using the proper components to accomplish the design goals will offer better overall performance than just dropping in random components (because they're "faster," or have a high IWBC -"It Would Be Cool" - factor).
FWIW / .02
Scott
If a packet enters the system/component at a gigabit today, and leaves the system tomorrow, it is still considered a gigabit component (because you are indeed clocking traffic / throughput at gigabit speeds). The latency (as possibly demonstrated by a PING time) would be horrendous, but the "speed" is still gigabit.
Bandwidth and latency are two separate critters. The amount of traffic passed is not necessarily relative to the time it took to get through the system/component.
In some/many cases, the higher bandwidth going into a congested system is more likely to put the traffic at risk of being dropped. The packets are buffered / stored and subject to time expiration. Latency through a congested system is higher than latency through an uncongested system. Adding components that amplify the congestion will amplify the latency as well.
The point being: as with just about anything else, some planning and design is always a good thing. Deciding what the system / network is intended to do and using the proper components to accomplish the design goals will offer better overall performance than just dropping in random components (because they're "faster," or have a high IWBC -"It Would Be Cool" - factor).
FWIW / .02
Scott
Why? You aren't even reaching 100mbit so what good is the extra 920-950mbit of bandwidth ?
Thorin
Latency is more to do with a network's load capacity and link's usage rather than the speed of connection to your cable modem.
AgaBoogaBoo
Lifer
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100Mbit doesn't(can't) actually use all that 100Mbit bandwidth. That has actually become a problem with the ISPs here going insane to raise the bandwidth.
As of now, I'm all satisfied with the 100Mbit Lan(Internet) I got, however If I ever upgrade I'm sure that I'd get Gigabit Lan so I won't have any problems later on.
Yes, I'm in S.Korea. Welcome to the country of Internet madness. If you're lucky you'll find yourself a home with 50-80Mbit, if you aren't, then you'll have to settle with 20Mbit.
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