[Gllug] The Network is the Computer?

[Gordon Joly]

At 11:38 +0000 2001-09-06, Jim Bailey wrote:
>Hi Formi,
>
>On Thursday, September 6, 2001, at 12:07 PM, Formi wrote:
>
>>  Anyway, is there any problem with only 10Mbit cards, why is everyone
>>  suggesting 10/100. In my case there is no reason why I would need
>>  a 100Mbit.
>
>10/100 will last you another few years 10 base is IMHO already 
>obsolete.  One of the first things I did when I started here was rip 
>out all the 10 base hubs here and replaced with 10/100.  The 
>improvement in network performance was worth the extra cost 
>particularly in an outfit like ours, where the users are constantly 
>slinging bloody great graphics files to each other across the 
>network.

So why stop ay 100 Megabits? Put in ATM at 600+ Megabits?

After all, they will slinging  video rather than single image graphics around?

Gordo

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