What's supposed to be the actual speed of a network all with Gigabit network cards ? all 10/1000
Is it something around 15mb/sec ?
Thanks
Don't get sucked into that kind of sales pitch. Type of cable will make little difference. While cat6 is ideal (and is what I use), the choice of cable is very unlikely to be the culprit here. Cat5 cable can carry gigabit as well.the 2 computers are plugged directly into that router. using random crappy ethernet cables i had laying around. I ordered this week 2 new cables CAT6 500mhz from monoprice. Since i have absolutely no idea what are the specs on my cables.
that's about it.
Still waiting for my cables to be delivered tho
When I was all done collecting the pieces, I remember copying a large file over the old 100 megabit equipment, which took about a minute and a half, and then upgrading to the gigabit network. After the upgrade, it took about 40 seconds to copy the same file. It was a nice performance boost, but not quite the 10 times difference between 100 Mb/s and 1 Gb/s I was expecting.
What's with that, anyway?
Why aren't our Gigabit networks delivering Gigabit speeds?
Surprise, they probably are!
While in real-world situations, the network will be severely bottlenecked by the hard drives. In a synthetic memory-to-memory scenario we demonstrated that our plain-Jane gigabit network delivered speeds very close to the theoretical 125 MB/s gigabit limitation. Typical drive-to-drive network speeds in a real-world situation will likely be limited from 20 to 85 MB/s, depending on the speed of the hard disks.