Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 16:55:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET> Cc: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>, crypt0genic <crypt0genic@ecad.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: poor ethernet performance? Message-ID: <199907162355.QAA22402@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907161636290.331-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET>
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: Good point but I think it's like how much of 100Mhz a 100BaseTX
:can push. If it pushes 100%, then it might be wise to have a little more
:room for overhead. Kinda like a car, better to have reserve power when
:you need it then pushing it to the max. In regards to 1000BaseT, I
:thought there was no standards for that yet, atleast all the Gigabit stuff
:is all fiber and not copper. Quality of cable does matter, atleast in
:high-end audio/video it does and I'm sure data would be more picky than
:human ears.
:
:
:Cheers,
:Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____
:Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ]
The copper gigabit standard isn't out yet, but I was under the impression
that they were pretty close.
In regards to audio/video verses ethernet, you have to remember that
audio and video are *analog*, not digital. The cable quality matters
for analog, but it only needs to be "good enough" for digital. If you
don't get any bit errors (and you shouldn't) then a better cable is not
going to make a difference.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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