: 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 - vi...@mcestate.com - vi...@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 <dil...@backplane.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message