[geeks] Re: Gigabit Ethernet

[Kevin]

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Thanks.  I'm pretty much just resigned to living with
what i can get out of 100baseT for now, all other
options just look way to inconvenient.

/KRM

On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 03:39:28 -0800 (PST)
Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> > From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
> > To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> > Subject: Re: [geeks] PCMCIA Gigabit NIC
> > 
> > On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 02:31 AM, Kevin
> > wrote:
> > > Does anyone know of any manufacturers for PCMCIA
> > > gigabit cards?  Preferably 1000baseSX but since i
> > > am having difficulty finding ANY gigabit PCMCIA
> > > cards i am assuming that fiber is a pipe dream.
> > >
> > > Is the bottleneck in laptops (CardBus or 2.5" hd
> > > speeds) too slow to keep up with gigabit traffic?
> > 
> >    Wow, you must have a much, much faster laptop
> >    than I do.
> 
> As was previously noted, the last few Rev's of the
> PowerBook have Gigabit Ethernet ports, but not sure
> if they are "practical" at that speed... (Practical
> in this sense means make full use of available
> bandwidth, not usable)
> 
> My thought is that they can peer on a Gigabit
> Ethernet network, but just have longer "gaps" between
> packets, thus reducing utilization of the network...
> 
> As for faster file transfers between laptop and
> desktop, I think a variant of "SneakerNet" will be
> appropriate (removeable HD with firewire
> interface)... "Never underestimate the bandwidth..."
> and all...
> 
> 
> =====
> Lionel
> 
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