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Lorenzo Sandini
Hi,
Just curious about what you people observe on your home networks. I have
a house on 2 floors, and use a Linksys WAG54G ADSL router with a 4 ports
switch. The router is upstairs, and computers are connected either
wirelessly or by wire. I think I get the transfer rates that are
expected with such a setup.
Now with prices dropping, I am recycling the old trusty Linksys and
bought myself a D-Link DGL-4300 router (108Mbps max on WLAN), with
Gigabit switch built-in.
One computer (XP pro) readily had a Marvel Yukon Gigabit interface on
the motherboard, and I added a low-profile PCI intel gigabit NIC in a
linux pizza box.
I haven't tried a crossover cable between 2 machines, they are both
connected to the gigabit switch. What are the expected sustained
transfer rates for big MPG2 files (video editing) from one machine to
the other if both machines ? The Linux machine (Fedora Core 4) is a PIII
1 GHz, the windows machine a P4 3.2 GHz, both with fast HDDs.
I don't have a WLAN NIC on the linux box (I want it cabled), but what if
the linux box is to host most of my starage, and I need to access the
data through WLAN adapters on laptops and desktops ? (108Mbps compatible
WLAN adapters that is).
With the Linksys router (100Mbps switch), I got around 12 MB/s from one
cabled to the other cabled machine, if one machine was on WLAN (54G)
then around 4 MB/sec only.
I know I am not to expect a 10-fold increase, but what typical speeds
are you seeing with a similar setup ? Haven't run any tests yet, or even
tweaked NIC settings (jumbo frames, half/full duplex, etc...).
Any benefit of Cat5e over Cat5 cable ?
Lorenzo
www.brokenbones.d2g.com
Just curious about what you people observe on your home networks. I have
a house on 2 floors, and use a Linksys WAG54G ADSL router with a 4 ports
switch. The router is upstairs, and computers are connected either
wirelessly or by wire. I think I get the transfer rates that are
expected with such a setup.
Now with prices dropping, I am recycling the old trusty Linksys and
bought myself a D-Link DGL-4300 router (108Mbps max on WLAN), with
Gigabit switch built-in.
One computer (XP pro) readily had a Marvel Yukon Gigabit interface on
the motherboard, and I added a low-profile PCI intel gigabit NIC in a
linux pizza box.
I haven't tried a crossover cable between 2 machines, they are both
connected to the gigabit switch. What are the expected sustained
transfer rates for big MPG2 files (video editing) from one machine to
the other if both machines ? The Linux machine (Fedora Core 4) is a PIII
1 GHz, the windows machine a P4 3.2 GHz, both with fast HDDs.
I don't have a WLAN NIC on the linux box (I want it cabled), but what if
the linux box is to host most of my starage, and I need to access the
data through WLAN adapters on laptops and desktops ? (108Mbps compatible
WLAN adapters that is).
With the Linksys router (100Mbps switch), I got around 12 MB/s from one
cabled to the other cabled machine, if one machine was on WLAN (54G)
then around 4 MB/sec only.
I know I am not to expect a 10-fold increase, but what typical speeds
are you seeing with a similar setup ? Haven't run any tests yet, or even
tweaked NIC settings (jumbo frames, half/full duplex, etc...).
Any benefit of Cat5e over Cat5 cable ?
Lorenzo
www.brokenbones.d2g.com