1 Gibit Lan

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I currently have a cat5e network infrastructure running on 100 mbit cards
and hub.

If I was to upgrade to a 1gibt LAN (cards and the hub) would there be a
significant improvement on the speed of the network utilizing the existing
cat 5 cabling?

 

[CJT]

I currently have a cat5e network infrastructure running on 100 mbit cards
and hub.

If I was to upgrade to a 1gibt LAN (cards and the hub) would there be a
significant improvement on the speed of the network utilizing the existing
cat 5 cabling?

That's going to depend on whether the computers using it are capable of
using much more than 100 Mbit. Many are not.

 

[Skylar Thompson]

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I currently have a cat5e network infrastructure running on 100 mbit cards
and hub.

If I was to upgrade to a 1gibt LAN (cards and the hub) would there be a
significant improvement on the speed of the network utilizing the existing
cat 5 cabling?

It depends on whether the machines can pump out 1Gb/s (~125MB/s). You might
be better off just upgrading the backbone to gigabit.