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When I check the my connection, it shows 100mbps. I have a gigabyte MB with Gigabit Lan that is 10/100/1000

I know my line is Cat5 only. I know I need at least Cat5e to get the 1000mbps.

If I buy cat5e or cat6 line, will I get 1000mbps?

Also, if I add a router, should I also make sure it must also handle 1000mbps?

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No matter what kind of CAT5E or CAT6 cable you use, you're not going to get 1000mbps since the port of the cable modem is only 100mpbs and the actually speed of your connection is probably less than 10mbps.

Grumpy

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Thanks.

So cable in general provides less than 100mbps is what your saying..

Does that mean that the 1000mbps is for office networking mostly?

Message edited by xringx on 01-02-2008 at 02:32:13 AM

No, cable internet generally provides less than 10mbps. Gigabyte Ethernet is for Local Area Networking.

Grumpy

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Thank you for explaining.

Even 10Mbps is optimistic. Most of the time you can pay for 10, but they really only offer "up to 10Mbps". You'll probably get somewhere in the neighborhood of 3-5Mbps down and probably less than 1Mbps up.

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A lot of folks get confused about transfer rates through a network. There are intranet and internet. The Intranet is the network inside your home. If you have more than one PC connected to the router you can transfer data at a higher rate than the speed you get through the internet. The internet is governed by your ISP. Those rates that are given are maximums and are seldom what the user experiences in real life.

When transferring files from one PC to another (Intranet) you will be limited by the speed of your NIC cards, cable type (Cat5, Cat5e, Cat6), Hard drive access/throughput, etc. So even if you have Cat6 cable and 1 Gig NIC cards, Gig router/switches you will not get 1 GB throughput if your Hard Drives rate is 100 meg.

I hope I didn't muddy the water too much.

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Timby, your final statement is misleading. A 1000Gb connection is 125MB, so if you have a raid array, ignoring overhead, you could saturate this. Realistically only about 800Mb of the 1000 is available, so you could get by with a raid array capable of 100MB. Gotta keep the Mb, MB and Gb, GB straight, use the rule of 8! BTW, gigabyte does NOT need anything over cat5e, I've run lines around 700ft that transfer near 700Mb over cat5e. The "limit" for ethernet is 100m or around 300 feet. Just make sure it's not cheap dollar store cable.

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Michael

I was referring to in general (not that an optimized system with high end hardware). In general (meaning most folks) will not be able to get 1 Giga-bit throughput on their LAN as they will be limited to their SATA drives (not high end Rapter HD's running in RAID configs), older Cat5 cables and having other PCs connected that are running 10/100 MB. Also, just because there are instances of folks being able to run Giga-bit across CAT5 and CAT5e doesn't mean that it will work in all instances. If that were so the cable mfgs folks would tell you to use CAT5 for Giga-bit.

What is misleading is the fact that the folks selling the hardware do not explain to folks the 1 Gig-bit transfer rate is maximum and not typical.

Sorry if I mislead anyone ....;> )

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Understood, but on the same token, the cable folks won't tell you cat5e is good enough, they won't sell any cat6!

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