Re: What think about 1GB Network cards for every machine on the Network?
- From: "Colon Terminus" <Colon_Terminus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 17:19:01 GMT
My experience is that making the switch from 100mbit to 1000mbit resulted in
an approximate doubling of network throughput speed. This is with all Cat5e
cabling.
One thing worth mentioning, and as a wanting to others, do your homework
before you purchase. I have for years used D-Link NICs exclusively. I find
it quite handy to have the same NIC in every workstation. Even if the
computer comes with an on-board NIC, I'll disable it and put my preferred
NIC in there.
I began the trial with one small department consisting of fourteen
workstations. I installed a gigabit switch and put D-Link gigabit NICs in
each workstation. Everything worked swimmingly. A very noticeable
improvement.
But then ... I went to make a ghost image of one of the workstations with a
failing hard disk. Uhoh! No NDIS drivers. I contacted D-Link. Sure enough,
no DOS drivers of any sort were available nor was one planned.
So I had the dubious pleasure of scrapping 14 D-Link NICs and replacing them
with NICs from Intel.
Caveat Emptor - or better yet, do your homework.
"Steve Duff [MVP]" <ergodic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> For certain things (like large file transfers, Autocad, etc.) you will see
a moderate benefit to desktop gigabit. Transfers might
> take say 20 seconds instead of 30. It will not, as people often expect, be
anything close to 10x the speed.
>
> In my experience for typical office applications, you won't see much
benefit unless your current 100mbit network is badly
> overloaded - in that case a high-quality gigabit server backbone adapter
and cut-through switch is usually enough to remedy that
> problem while still keeping your existing switch and desktop adapter
investment mostly intact.
>
> Offsetting the potential benefit is the cost and some real (though
solveable) headaches with the current crop of gigabit cards and
> drivers (one of them being that faster XP machines can boot to the login
screen before the adapter is ready.) This may be one of
> those times where waiting a little longer is a virtue.
>
> Steve Duff, MCSE, MVP
> Ergodic Systems, Inc.
>
> "George Hester" <hesterloli@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >I put one in my Doamin Controller and it alone is very quick. But other
> > machines on the network just have run-of-the-mill 100MB cards. Is it
> > recommended to have the same cards on all the machines in the Network?
> >
> > --
> > George Hester
> > _______________________________
> >
>
>
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