On 2017-01-20 13:41, James Knott wrote:
On 01/19/2017 11:39 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
If I were corporate and the LAN/SAN were the limit I'd see about
gigabit networking or optical networking. But then again, all my machines, except for a few from the Closet of Anxieties with 800Mhz 32-bit/1GRAM are 64-bit. For office networks, 1GigE has long been the norm
With the cost of networking gear these days, even 1G at home is common. I recently picked up a 5 port managed gigabit switch for about $30. Computers have come with Gb NICs for years.
Absolutely. But recently I was dismayed to find out that my new WiFi AP is not gigabit (it has 4 ethernet ports, too). Unfortunately, too late to return the unit. My laptop doesn't support gigabit, either. The other day I had to argue with the lady on the phone of an ISP that wanted to upgrade automatically an internet connection speed to 150 on a site. I tried to reason with her about the absurdity of increasing connection speed on a site that uses only WiFi (it goes at 40). On the end, I had to pull rank and tell her I was an engineer and that I knew more than her. She subsided, and instead offered a cheaper contract. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)