Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 16:58:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>, crypt0genic <crypt0genic@ecad.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: poor ethernet performance? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907161656350.331-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET> In-Reply-To: <199907162355.QAA22402@apollo.backplane.com>
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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
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