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Anyone have any comments on the higher speed networking?

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>> Anyone have any comments on the higher speed networking?
>
> Depends on what you want the network to do.....
>
> 1. 10baseT is old and difficult to obtain now and pretty much defunct
>
> 2. 100baseT is the current standard networking speed, equipment and
> cards are cheap and will work on Cat5 cable and is pretty good for most
> networks
>
> 3. 1000Base - the new standard which enterprises are installing but
> hasn't made it down to the SMEs yet. Tho i have seen some keenly priced
> stuff - it's still not cheap enough.... give it a year or so.... Also
> only useful if you're using a lot of bandwidth on your network such as
> media etc.

I will agree here. 100BaseT is really cheap now.

1000BaseT is starting to roll out (I am starting to look at it direct to
desktop) especially for roaming profiles, etc.

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