1st April 2008

Gigabit Ethernet

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I’ve had a Gigabit Ethernet network for quite some time but have mostly been using older Cat5 cables. They looked like they worked fine so why mess with them, right?

Lately I’ve been upgrading them with newer Cat6 cables. I just noticed a file-transfer that appears to be averaging 60megabytes per second or 60% utilization on the Ethernet. I’ve never gotten anywhere close to this performance before- it looks like the Cat6 stuff does make a big difference.

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  1. 1 On April 2nd, 2008, Celisa said:

    Back at your alma mater, we’ve wired the newest residence halls back with gig to the desktop, but haven’t yet taken to supplying cat 6 drops since gig-capable NICs were not the norm. It’s nearing time to rethink that, though I think the residence are more interested in optimizing their various gaming experiences than they are in pure file transfer rates. :-)

  2. 2 On April 8th, 2008, Alex said:

    Nice. The cool thing it does at home is that it makes accessing files on a remote server very close to the same speed as a local disk. The only issue I’ve had is that there are some Vista bugs that make copying big files (>2GB) really crappy. At some point the OS will get the networking stuff right so I can leave all my media off in the closet and have fewer noisy hard-drives at the TV machine, etc.

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