Re: GIGABIT Ethernet bottleneck?

From: jtsnow (jtsnow_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/01/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:24:08 -0800

thanks! I was wondering how I could view bandwidth usage. What do you
mean by manager. When I got to setting and look at the network it will give
me a count of packets but not usage.

your right about the timing backups....I can do that for sure.... part of
me just wants to go buy a new widget.

I have a Cable modem router with 4 ports and that to a switch with 4 ports.

When you add a 2nd nic does the OS then just manage their use independent of
my intervention? thats a good idea.

What is the difference between a switch, a hug and a router?

thanks again!

"wayne" <nope@exampe.com> wrote in message
news:892dnbcEEb_Pe2PcRVn-sg@comcast.com...
> probably not if you go to manager there is a network tab you can see the
> throughput on it. Most hard drive can not sustain the speeds that 100mb
> Ethernet can. Do you have a switch or a hub? You should be doing your
> backups during off times not when people are playing games? how many
> ports do you have on the hub/switch? If it is a switch you could just add
> a second 15.00 nic and double your bandwidth. If you have hub get a
> switch you can get a 10/100/1000 switch for about 60 bucks.
>
> Wayne
>
>
> "jtsnow" <jtsnow@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:ulBLd.79888$Tf5.22441@lakeread03...
>> Will I experience significantly faster exchange data rates on my home LAN
>> then with 100baseT thats there now?
>> Is there a bottle neck limitation in the PC that limits the max amount of
>> effective throughput to the point where it wont make much difference to
>> hang a GIGABIT LAN around it?
>> I have 4 PCs on a home LAN I was considering doing this for to improve HD
>> backup times I do to a server and to help with other shared bandwidth
>> issues we are starting to see with the kids playing online games, backups
>> and such.
>>
>> Any thoughts to suggest if this its worth the trouble to swap out NICs
>> and router to the GIGBIT world?.
>>
>> Thank for any insights
>>
>
>

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