From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 20 18:31:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A966637B981 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:31:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id DAA08297 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 03:31:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA96846 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 02:35:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Best NIC / Best CDR-CDRW Date: 21 Apr 2000 02:35:18 +0200 Message-ID: <8do7o6$2ui1$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <38FCAC4B.1B007400@uwi.tt> <4.1.20000418231403.022c19f0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Olaf Hoyer wrote: > If you only want some little-stressed networking between your box and that > of your buddy/children/roommate, then 10MBit shall be enough and cheap, > also if sharing cable modem. Sure. This week I've burned a few CD ROMs. Nothing special. Everybody burns CDs these days. For some CDs, I couldn't keep the source data and the ISO image on the the same machine for disk space reasons, so I ended up doing something like this... host1$ mkisofs ... | rsh host2 'cat >foo.iso' ... and kept wondering why this operation always took some 15 minutes. Eventually the realization hit me that my expectation of LAN operations being "instantaneous" needed some revision. 10Base-T, that's 1MB/s max, with 600MB per image, well, it's obvious. I've been nagging since that the machine with the CD burner needs a 100Base-TX card. In fact, it has a Realtek one now, which was exceedingly cheap, but then we've noticed a certain lack of 100Mbit/s- capable switch ports. Anyway, this has lately become a pet peeve of mine. 10Mbit/s is *not* fast enough today. If you can, go 100Mbit/s. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message