I am trying to decide early in the project if it would be worth it to jump to a Giga network, is this kind of transfer speed even necessary? would it make more sense just to stick with 10/100?
It would speed up your MD network boot time, and if you intend having multiple video streams, esp HD ones running at the same time, then yes it would be a good idea.
not strictly necessary but does not hurt :-) Get a good switch that also can handle the packet rate :-)
br Hari
what hari said
I run Gigabit network.
You can find equipment that is fairly well priced now.
I am looking in the future of HD and Blueray streams on my setup, which will require higher bandwidth.
people have other than gigabit?
10/100 here. The core supports 1G, but my switches and single dedicated MD (old laptop) are all 100M stuff. I suppose going Gig would let my MD boot faster, but unless/until I go HD I don't think there would be much difference.
Using gigabit here to as many devices as possible.
In my opinion use at least gigabit to your core/hybrid.
MDs will work on a 100Mbps connection (just little slower boot time).
If you really must use 100Mbps, make sure you get duplex settings correct since it tend to work pretty well but not 100% correct all the time.
With gigabit, duplex settings is part of the standard. It should work and so far I haven´t seen any gigabit connection that have gotten wrong settings when negotiating with a gigabit switch.
/niz23
:)
I have a gigabit network, mostly.
My core has a Broadcom gigabit ethernet adapter it is hooked to a Trendnet http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833156211 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833156211)
Gigabit switch. Very inexpensive. Like $38, and newegg free shipping ;D
My Living Room MD is currently only connected at 100MB, it is a 10/100 onboard nic.
My laptop MD has a Intel gigabit, and boots almost in half the time that the living room MD does.
I intend to add a new Intel gigabit card to the Living Room MD and am scoping this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833106006 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833106006) at also under $40. And I can utilize the slot on my inadequately slotted mobo.
But I am all for Gigabit Networking.
Regards,
Seth
i use a combination and am slowly upgrading everything to gigabit. It is money well spent getting a decent switch as others suggested.
A question for some though - are you planning to still run cat 5e or upgrade to cat 6?
Similarly what are peoples thoughts on running a dual or quad gigabit nic in the core ?