On Sunday 02 January 2005 17:28, James Knott wrote:
Hans Witvliet wrote:
Hi,
Seeing these results, i wonder what one can expect with gigabit-network. Is it worthwhile the costs, as i seem to remember that the bandwith drops quickly with cable-length (cat-6)...
Bandwidth does not decrease with cable length. Attenuation and noise do increase with length, which will eventually cause an unusable signal. Gigabit ethernet is designed to provide 1 Gb/s over a 100 M distance. Go much beyond that, and the error rate will rise with distance.
All our 23 boxes are in the same room. It's not the hardware that's at fault. It's good at doing what it's designed for. Like running a single copy of XP. Not serving 20 copies of open OOo by nfs on SuSE. That's not what it was designed for. You can't do that with a box you buy down at the local supermarket. For 600 Euros. There are no solutions. The thread has been going for over 2 weeks now. Let's drop it. Either we cough up the cash and get a proper server with a zillion GB of ram or we suffer the overheads. Cheers, Steve.