GIGABIT Ethernet bottleneck?

[jtsnow]

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

 

[wayne]

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

 

[Yves Leclerc]

There is really not benefits to goto GigaBit network. High-Speed internet
access can only do 10-Base-T speeds, for now. The bottleneck will always be
the router.

You would see better performance with:
More RAM
Faster processor
Faster/larger hard drive

 

[jtsnow]

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!

 

[EasyFeelings]

to check your speeds on the internet checkout
http://www.pcpitstop.com/internet/

this will tell you your speeds in and out of your network, won't help you
with your LAN speeds though.

 

[Rick]

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

I can say that I have noticed much improvement with a 1gig LAN card.
but, it may also be that I have a 64bit processor.

R.