I'm planning on building a gigabit trunk between 2 PCs using a gigabit switch (Netgear GS108T). So by combining 2 gigabit connections I can transfer data at 2000mbps between the them.
I had planned on using 2 PCI gigabit cards in one of the machines, but doing a little research I've heard that the maximum speed of the PCI bus is 133mb/s which is shared between all PCI slots on a motherboard.
Now since 2000mbps = 238mb/s, am I correct in thinking that using PCI cards would limit the speed?
(2,000,000,000 bits / 8*1024*1024 = 238mb)
Maybe i've got my figures wrong here, i'm not entirely sure if the PCI bus speeds i've mentioned are right. Also the mobo and lan cards are PCI 2.2 (if thats any faster
). Does anyone know if PCI will be the limiting factor in reaching 2gbps speeds?
If thats the case would I need to switch the motherboard to something with either 2 in-built gigabit lan connections or with 2 pci-e 1x slots (or a combination of the two)
I had planned on using 2 PCI gigabit cards in one of the machines, but doing a little research I've heard that the maximum speed of the PCI bus is 133mb/s which is shared between all PCI slots on a motherboard.
Now since 2000mbps = 238mb/s, am I correct in thinking that using PCI cards would limit the speed?
(2,000,000,000 bits / 8*1024*1024 = 238mb)
Maybe i've got my figures wrong here, i'm not entirely sure if the PCI bus speeds i've mentioned are right. Also the mobo and lan cards are PCI 2.2 (if thats any faster
). Does anyone know if PCI will be the limiting factor in reaching 2gbps speeds?If thats the case would I need to switch the motherboard to something with either 2 in-built gigabit lan connections or with 2 pci-e 1x slots (or a combination of the two)
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