Hi JA Le 2012-05-04 19:14, JA Magallón a écrit :
As someone would say... that al depends. For the speed from each computer to the intenet, you are safe. The ISP speed is the limit. If you talk about moving files between computers inside your home, you should try to keep gigabit interconnection everywhere. Some numbers: - i have an Linksys WRT320N at home. Raw performace measured with iperf between win and linux is about 800Mbps. - real performance is much worse, copying from my win server to my linux box (win share mounted on linux), gives about 500 Mbps - as music server, if you use mp3 even at 320 Kbps, you can serve about 1500 simultaneous streams... at 100Mb, only 150 ;) - if you play videos for example mounting a shared drive on clients: playing an mkv HD video, that totem says is compressed about 3MBps, uses a bit more, about 4Mbps (read via samba client from linux), so bandwith is pretty fine even at 100Mb - the only problem is when you want to copy a big file and don't want to wait... that is where gigabit really pays off. Copying a 1.2 Gb file took 30 secs on gigabit, that means 300 on 100Mb, so five minutes.. So, for usual media streaming, you are fine at 100, but for heavy file movement, gigabit is worth it. You can leave your router alone, and get a decent giga switch for about 100 euros. http://www.appinformatica.com/hubs-switch-linksys-switch-8p-10-100-1000.php http://www.appinformatica.com/hubs-switch-connection-switch-rack-19-16ptos-10-100-1000.php (sorry for the spanish shop, but it was what I know well)
Thanks for all of this and the speed comparisons, really helpful. I'll check out the switches available here in Canada.
Cheers, Marc
