From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 16 17: 0:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from venus.GAIANET.NET (venus.GAIANET.NET [207.211.200.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D47B214D01 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 16:59:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by venus.GAIANET.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA09904; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 16:58:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 16:58:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Bill Paul , crypt0genic , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: poor ethernet performance? In-Reply-To: <199907162355.QAA22402@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > : 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. > > 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. Actually, I was referring to *digital* Audio cables like those used for CD Transports to Digital/Analog convertors such as Kimber Kable would be higher grade compared to Monster Cable. You're correct about the bit errors though. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message