Gigabyte: I Really Don't Get It

[Lavarin]

... Why bother with Gigabit Ethernet when residential DSL is still in the Megabits? I mean, yeah, you can move data between network workstations quickly, but your broadband is still a bottleneck to the rest of the world.

 

[Guest]

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Grumpy

 

[phipsi32]

Media sharing . . . yeah that's it. Users with a Slingbox or other digital media console will see the benefits. You can connect a network storage device (read USB hard drive) and share high def media files like those from ZML.com. Otherwise, you're correct. Gigabit doesn't help especially when you need a minimum Cat5e to take advantage of the bandwith.