From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 16 16:56: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB56F14EF0 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 16:55:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA22402; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 16:55:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 16:55:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199907162355.QAA22402@apollo.backplane.com> To: Vincent Poy Cc: Bill Paul , crypt0genic , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: poor ethernet performance? References: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : 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. : : :Cheers, :Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ :Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] 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. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message