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You really don't want to know the price of some of the switches though that you need on the end of these devices........
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It's more likely to be bottlenecked by disk througput than the network, or poor quality cards/switches.
It would probably be cheaper to get some kit that can do link aggregation such as Etherchannel on Cisco kit. That way you could group together 2 or more 1000Base-T links together to create a faster network. That said though, I would say you should first follow Sin Chase's advice and look at your infrastructure, because it may not be your network being the bottleneck. Unless you are using a fast RAID setup then your HDD is most likely to be a bottleneck long before your network throughput is.
You really don't want to know the price of some of the switches though that you need on the end of these devices........
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It won't be cost effective for quite some time - Force10 make a 10Gbit TOR switch but it's close to £20k. Brocade have one about as well but it'll be similar.
As said, if you're running into problems with 1Gbit at home then you need to rethink what you're doing in terms of workflow, or if you're just storing rips of bluray's on a NAS and absolutely must be able to copy them around in seconds get NIC teaming set up.
As said, if you're running into problems with 1Gbit at home then you need to rethink what you're doing in terms of workflow, or if you're just storing rips of bluray's on a NAS and absolutely must be able to copy them around in seconds get NIC teaming set up.
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You can get an 8-port 10Ge switch for just over 4 grand.
The trouble with most advertised 10Gbit equipment is that it won't meet that port speed.
You're looking at some very very expensive kit if you do want the full 10Gbit.
The situations where you currently need 10Gbit are very few at the moment, but I suppose it is becoming increasingly common.
The trouble with most advertised 10Gbit equipment is that it won't meet that port speed.
You're looking at some very very expensive kit if you do want the full 10Gbit.
The situations where you currently need 10Gbit are very few at the moment, but I suppose it is becoming increasingly common.
i only really get upto 70mb/s due to protocol overheads without jumbo frames. i dont really want to use jumbo frames, i think small packets are good for streaming games/videos etc, less lag and stuttering. plenty of drives can push over 100mb/s nowadays and i have plans to do a raid 
My brother tells me I can do something like etherchannel with software, i am very interested, 2Gbit should be enough for now. Any more information on this would be useful. I have 3 computers plugged into a home server with 3 pcie gigabit ethernet cards.
My brother tells me I can do something like etherchannel with software, i am very interested, 2Gbit should be enough for now. Any more information on this would be useful. I have 3 computers plugged into a home server with 3 pcie gigabit ethernet cards.
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You don't need it, I mean if you want to spend heaps on a white elephant go ahead but there's no need for any home usage. Streaming 1080p in any common codec will work over a 100Mb link just fine, so unless you're streaming uncompressed RGB 1080p (that is to say, unless you run a movie studio) there's no need.
So, maybe you want to transfer RIPs of bluray disks really quickly, well sure I guess it might be justification if you've got more money than sense but you'll need 10Gbit, bonding links depends on multiple traffic streams as ether-channel balances on source and destination mac address. So no single transfer will ever go over 1Gbit anyway.
Lastly, if you're getting 70Mbps, something in your current setup is rubbish, you'll get at least 90Mbps even on home gear if your disk system is capable. Jumbo frames likely won't help much, plenty of tests show a reduction in throughput with Jumbo frames but enabled but then again it won't harm either, won't affect quality at all, packet size will have no affect.
So, maybe you want to transfer RIPs of bluray disks really quickly, well sure I guess it might be justification if you've got more money than sense but you'll need 10Gbit, bonding links depends on multiple traffic streams as ether-channel balances on source and destination mac address. So no single transfer will ever go over 1Gbit anyway.
Lastly, if you're getting 70Mbps, something in your current setup is rubbish, you'll get at least 90Mbps even on home gear if your disk system is capable. Jumbo frames likely won't help much, plenty of tests show a reduction in throughput with Jumbo frames but enabled but then again it won't harm either, won't affect quality at all, packet size will have no affect.
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Highest bitrate you get from even BD is 50Mb peaks. Averages lwoer than that and by '1080p' you're probably referring to stuff you've pirated which will have far lower bitrates still.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VC-1#Bit_rates_and_resolutions
Most rates are under 100mbit.
Gigabit networking is pretty cheap these days, it would be silly to go without.
@Rich43, it's most likely your network cards / switch isn't up to the job. With the cheap Intel desktop NICs it's very easy to get full gigabit throughput, even on a small switch like the HP 1800 series.
Most rates are under 100mbit.
Gigabit networking is pretty cheap these days, it would be silly to go without.
@Rich43, it's most likely your network cards / switch isn't up to the job. With the cheap Intel desktop NICs it's very easy to get full gigabit throughput, even on a small switch like the HP 1800 series.
Something is up, then. Even full Blu-ray movies are 40mbit/sec which shouldn't even come close to causing problems for a 100mbit network. If you're using MKVs or similar containers then you're looking at a bitrate of around a quarter of that, so call it 10 to 15mbit.
Again, even a full untouched Blu-ray will stream fine over a 100mbit network, with plenty of bandwidth to spare.
It's more likely that you're seeing the limits of your gigabit kit. What cards and switch are you using?
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The only time I can think of that gigabit is a bottleneck is file transfer (not streaming, but physically moving files). In that case though, drive speeds aren't much above gigabit.