Has anyone used Gigabit cabling
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Actually I have some freaky obsession with hardware. I've got a 3 Gig chip with 2 Gig of Ram now. I have 8 "high-end" machines at my place. I have the luxury of getting hardware cheaper than cost, so I have way to much hardware here (some of you will hate me saying this.) I like horsepower and speed. Most of which gets wasted, since I use one base machine. But, I like new toys and Gigabit seems interesting, especially when I think of transfering 3 or 4 Gig at a time over the network. So it is a practical application for me. I've got 10Mps on my cable-connection to the internet, and its more than I need. But for a fileserver, I'm thinking that any speed increase is nice. I was actually thinking about 2 Gig cards and a crossover cable, with no hub for these two machines. That would increase the speed a little more. I think :confused: :confused: And save a bit of time backing up to the machine I store to. I can get 2 Gig cards for about $60 bucks, so I was curious if anyone was using something like that. I'm gonna think about it. :) -Randy
zenboy wrote: I was actually thinking about 2 Gig cards and a crossover cable, with no hub for these two machines. That would increase the speed a little more. I think And save a bit of time backing up to the machine I store to. Not really sure what you mean by 2 Gig cards and a crossover cable. But, if your primary purpose is backup, then a single gb card crossed over to a server will allow you to backup that server to a NAS device or SAN. I agree with no hub. Hub's are my nemises. :) I use switches whenever possible, managed when $$ permit. Even still, I think the repeater rule is 2 hubs / switches per interface so thats even tough. (By 2 hubs / switches I mean repeated not uplinked by fiber or other mdx interface). If you can get hdware at such a cheap price, why not invest in a good gb backboned switch. 100 mb to your servers, gb to your backup. :) Cheers, Frank "Keyboard Error - Press F1 to Continue"