From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 16 16:28: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB5FF14F00 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 16:28:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA22115; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 16:27:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 16:27:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199907162327.QAA22115@apollo.backplane.com> To: Vincent Poy Cc: Bill Paul , crypt0genic , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: poor ethernet performance? References: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : Speaking about ethernet performance, doesn't the quality of cable :affect it too? I noticed that there are cables that are 350Mhz and higher :over the standard CAT5 100Mhz cables. Has anyone used the higher :frequency cables and gotten any better results? And generally for CAT5 :cable, is there a difference in quality between BerkTek and Belden? : : :Cheers, :Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ :Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] 10BaseT is 10BaseT, as long as it is in spec it is not going to perform any better or worse based on the quality of the cable. So if standard Cat5 cable works for you, getting a higher grade cable is not going to make it work better. Same with 100BaseT and 1000BaseT. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message