Switching to gigabit ethernet
 

Well I finally broke down and bought a gigabit ethernet switch from HP

All my macs have gigabit cards already so I figured with all the big files moving around my home office it was time to upgrade from 100MBit

My buddy Steve is a cable tech so he is helping me throw cat 6 all over the basement today and will certify all the connections as well.

I can't wait to see the difference moving big video files around :)

when I look in network monitor on windows xp on 100mbps ethernet it only ever shows the link at 15% even on file transfers so is windows capable or using all that bandwidth ?

With the right cabling and switch he should be able to do pretty good, especially with Macs I think. If anything, I am sure that the onboard NIC on the Macs is higher quality than that which is integrated in most average desktop PCs. 10/100/1000 ethernet interfaces are not all created equal!

:)

Brad

Yep, we switched to gigabit about 8 months ago at the office. It's a beautiful thing!!!!!

I will do a before and after test and let you guys know the results :)

okay so here is the before

100 MBIT switch

500 Meg file copied to another computer took 46 seconds.

I will post the gigabit results when we are done wiring :)

Looking forward to seeing results as i'm thinking of making the change.

I bet its less then 15 seconds now.

17 seconds was the after result. I am happy with this result :)