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RE: Gigabit glory

nightlight — Fri, 30 May 2008 07:53:25 GMT

GM127 I will give you one piece of advice, get rid of Virgin.

Had nothing, but hell with them, poor connection speeds, traffic shaping and even a letter concerning my heavy downloading.

Been with Be for over 12 months now, excellent, and even got 4mb connection at last, not bad considering my line length.

As to gigabit networking, I've just started upgrading my network to gigabit , never realise a gigabit network could be so much faster.

RE: Gigabit glory

leon.electrician — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:19:30 GMT

you had to do it didn't you, i thought i'd kicked my ebay habit, but that would be very useful , bit late thou

RE: Gigabit glory

gunman127 — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:33:00 GMT

Really annoyed now!

Somewhere in my tweaking it's all gone downhill.

As I said in the OP, I maxed out at 40MB/s , but now it constantly fluctuates between 40% and 0.4% network usage!

On another note, Virgin are currently traffic shaping my line to exactly 100KB/s... how unfair is that! Lazy buggers!

RE: Gigabit glory

-Wiz!- — Fri, 02 May 2008 19:52:25 GMT

That'll be windows 7 then. :P

RE: Gigabit glory

ricedg — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:56:29 GMT

Yes they are a bargain.

If you're shopping at E-Buyer and looking for something to "top up" for free p+p, they have gigabit cards starting from £8.42
Plexus switches start at £20 for a 5 porter, with 3 Com and (my favourite) Netgear Platinum only a couple of quid more.

Well I can't tell you how nice it is to have the same networking speed on Rig#1 as the rest of the PCs in the house.
I can't see me going back to Vista until they have this sorted.

RE: Gigabit glory

gunman127 — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:28:42 GMT

Am I allowed to say this?

[url=http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=120252467255&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&ih=002]Bargain[/url]

As it isn't me that's selling them.

RE: Gigabit glory

-Wiz!- — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:41:50 GMT

Luckily my demands from any O.S are very little and Vista's eyecandy keeps me happy. I put that down to the C2D powering it. Still amazes me that my little laptop knocks the socks off my old overclocked X2 rig. :)

RE: Gigabit glory

ricedg — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:38:43 GMT

It really was getting damn silly.
A part of the prep for going back to XP i had to export from Windows Mail.
The only option is to Outlook or Windows Mail.
To export to Outlook, you must have Outlook installed :w00t:
I have the Office CD stored as files on WHS, it took literally 5 minutes until I could run setup.exe
That's not unusual and pushed me over the edge and made me determined to carry on.

However, I have a get out of jail free card as WHS has a backup of the Vista installation if I decide i need to go back.
At this moment I can't see that happening...

RE: Gigabit glory

-Wiz!- — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:24:34 GMT

lol...It's not from personal experience just what I read on the net. :P

RE: Gigabit glory

ricedg — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:21:58 GMT

Thank you Wiz, you made my mind up :D

Vista is now gone from Rig#1, it's going back to XP Pro as I type (on Rig#2).
I am fed up of the hissy fit it throws every time I go near the Windows Home Server.
It's not WHS, my kids XP boxes and my Linux get on just fine.
The wifes laptop (Vista basic) has the same problem too.

I'm also sick of the DRM and the whole damn interface.

RE: Gigabit glory

-Wiz!- — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:19:13 GMT

Thats great! If you want to keep it that way steer clear of Vista! :D

Gigabit glory

gunman127 — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:35:41 GMT

Not a cry for help, but an exclamation of joy!

I've wanted gigabit networking at home for ages, and last week got a Netgear GS605 off of eBay for £20.

I already had an Intel Pro/1000MT in my main rig, and a generic Realtek PCI-Gigabit NIC in my testbed machine.

Moving an 800MB file on my old 100Mb router, took over two minutes.

Over this gigabit line, under 30 seconds!

I've just now changed to Jumbo Frames setting as well, with 16K MTU size on my main rig, but only 9K on my testbed.

That made it even faster, Getting solid 40MB/s transfers!

I've just ordered 2 more Pro/1000MT off of eBay, the bloke has 28 left so get them now!!!