real world difference between 10/100 and 1000

[dangerstat]

Hey guys,

I was thinking of upgrading my router from a desktop type 10/100 netgear switch to a 10/100/1000 switch, and I was looking for some real world figures of that the transfer rate would be. At the moment I seem to get 6.7-8 MB/sec so I assume it'll scale in a linear fashion and I'll get 67MB/sec?

Thought you guys would be the best to ask

 

[dangerstat]

Thanks for the replies guys.

I just did an FTP transfer from one of my Macs to a Linux machine which gave the following stats:

100% 402MB 10.9MB/s 00:37

Does that sound about right?

(I was VNC'd into the Mac from the Linux box at the same time though :/)

 

[dangerstat]

I recently upgraded my home network to a gigabit switch and the performance is like night and day! Before I was getting 11MB/s which was crippled if someone else was copying from the file server, now I average around 50MB/s and the network doesn't slow down as much if someone else is copying as well!

That's good to hear - think I'll go ahead and grab a gigabit switch then