At 09:39 PM 7/17/2001 +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 06:23:20PM +1200, Richard Naylor wrote:
This is not to decry teh Cisco gear, but the IEEE team did a huge amount of work on 1000base-T based on the experiences with 100base-T. I mean with 100mbps nics at $25, you can pick where 1000base-T nics will be in 2 years time.
I would love to know where you can get a decent 100mbs NIC for $25 these days. Anything reasonable costs typically three times that I find.
Dick Smith. Maybe decent was the qualifer......I think we pay $35 for D-Link. BTW you REALLY do need GbE at home. Being a good fellow (TM) I decided that I would take a copy of a Corrs video screened on TV3 to work for the others to watch. After I snipped out the ads its a 465meg file, nothing too major. Well I'm living in patch cord hell at home (I suspect one of the offspring has given me a dud cord and the tester is in my van outside in the rain), so the nic on my laptop isn't going. So I decided to use the wireless lan to copy the file to my laptop for carrying to work. (Van-net ?). Sheesh - even in the same room as the Airport, Windoze reckons it will take 81 minutes ! Last time I shifted a file from the edit pc to the server (both on GbE) it took 6 minutes for 1.6 Gig. I wonder if I can get a GbE PC card for the laptop ? Yes I know a CD burner would fix it, but thats busy at the mo. richard.naylor(a)citylink.co.nz --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog