Hollowman8904

Is gigabit lan really worth it for me to spend $100+? I am mostly going to do LAN gaming and sometimes filetransfers (but not too often).

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pjlietz

firewire is better, i have a gigabit card and get crappy connection speeds when transfering info to my buddys card with a direct connection

edit: so no, i don't think its worth it

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Lostnhell

NO, gigabit lan is not worth it.

How aten do you really think you will need that bandwidth?
and it is a lag on the CPU, it is dependant on collissions which allows it to reach those speeds. your CPU has to work extra processes to analyze the echoes for the incoming signal.

el mailman

c me n hollowman along with some of our friend have weekly lan party's n not evrybody has firewire 2 my knowledge (hollowman correct m if im rong)
so gigabit lan is the fastest solution

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PsychoJoker

I have the DGL-4300 by DLink.. I love it but I do hugh transfers of video for rendering. And as a lan party the transfers are small but there is many of there more ment for 100BaseT less colisions

Hollowman8904

OK. Thanks.

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Veto1024

Probably 6+ computers would need gigabit. Im not sure how firewire got into this...

blob

If you got a hub/switch/router with 1000Gb, go ahead if your gonna have huge Lanning. If not, get 100Mb.

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bigvaL

Nope, for what you're doing with your internet its not worth it all at, i'd say if u had a network of 10 computers or something it'd be worth it, or for a company then of course it'd be worth it

but for smaller personal use, nope not at all

and u need full-duplex cabling too not just a router, u need cat6 (catergory 6) cabling to get its full usage..full duplex means 4 wires inbound data, 4 wires outbound data

our internets just use 4 wires.. not 8, even though all 8 are there

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Veto1024

Hey wait guys, what are we talkinga bout

OF COURSE GET GIGABIT.

This whole forum is about paying exorbitant amounts of money for little performance gain that doesnt really effect us in real world applications.