gigabit lan

[gotta know]

A question re: gigabit LAN....
Is it worth considering purchasing a MB with this feature when I am hooked
up to a high speed cable ISP? It's about a 10$ difference in price between
a MB with and without this feature, but will there be any real benefit for a
home network (hardwired) consisting of only two PCs?

Also if anyone has comment on the ASUS A7v600 or the A7v600-x MB pls let me
know

thx

bob

 

[David Besack]

A question re: gigabit LAN....

Is it worth considering purchasing a MB with this feature when I am hooked
up to a high speed cable ISP? It's about a 10$ difference in price between
a MB with and without this feature, but will there be any real benefit for a
home network (hardwired) consisting of only two PCs?

A very good cable ISP can run about 3 Mbps, and the 10/100 LAN runs at
100 Mbps, not even coming close to saturating it. Yeah, you'll only see
a difference in home networking.

Also, it is very doubtful your cable modem even has a gigabit port, and
gigabit switches are much more expensive than regular ones.

 

[SteveH]

A question re: gigabit LAN....
Is it worth considering purchasing a MB with this feature when I am hooked
up to a high speed cable ISP? It's about a 10$ difference in price
between
a MB with and without this feature, but will there be any real benefit for
a
home network (hardwired) consisting of only two PCs?

Also if anyone has comment on the ASUS A7v600 or the A7v600-x MB pls let
me
know

thx

bob

If you shift a lot of large files between PC's on your home network, then
its definately worth it (bear in mind the other PC has to have a Gbit lan
card as well, to get those speeds).
It wont make a scrap of difference to your cable internet connection.

SteveH

 

[noone]

Your ISP coming in is WAN (Wide area network) your gigabit ethernet is
LAN(local area network) entirely different protocol. Therefore it has no
impact on your ISP. Unless you transfering a great deal of large file I
would not make any difference.

 

[Ken]

A very good cable ISP can run about 3 Mbps,

In Sweden we use up to 24 Mbit/s for ADSL2,
and some have 100 Mbit/s LAN for Internet.

 

[Ken]

A very good cable ISP can run about 3 Mbps,

In Sweden we use up to 24 Mbit/s for ADSL2+
and some have 100 Mbit/s LAN for Internet.