10/100/1000 Dlink NIC for under $50!

[BigDady92]

Gigabit for under $50. This is unreal..

Gigabit NIC

 

[Milhouse99]

Wow, 1000Mbs? didn't know those were around...

~Milhouse

 

[DoubleN]

Wow...don't think we'll be needing the 1000MBs just yet, but nice to know that the technology is out there.

 

[davidme]

ill get them when the damn hubs are cheap....
cause damn!!!

 

[jclark]

Of course, I just paid $175 each for a pair for my cluster. Bleagh.

 

[Unclemo]

yhea... the problem is I would need a 24 port hub or switch in my home and that would be $$$$... But nice price for the NICs.

 

[Sigity]

Thank god I finally see a product on anandtech that I can resist because I don't need it. I really just don't need a gigabit card.

I don't NEED IT!!!!


sig.

 

[davidme]

Sigity

you dont sound convincing

 

[hevnsnt]

1st. Get a pipe that my 10mbit card can't handle. (farking cable)
2nd. worry about gigabit ethernet..

=)

 

[Zach]

:Q

$175:
http://store.yahoo.com/comready/soh9por10nwa.html



<< Features:

8 10/100Mbps NWay Ethernet ports
1 10/100/1000Mbps NWay Auto-MDIX Gigabit Ethernet port
1 10/100Mbps NWay MDI-II Uplink port
Full/half duplex transfer mode for each port
Wire speed reception and transmission
Store-and-Forward switching method
Integrated address Look-Up Engine, supports 4K absolute MAC addresses
Supports 256Kbytes RAM for da diagnostic ta buffer
Extensive front-panel LEDs
Broadcast storm protection
IEEE 802.3x flow control for full-duplex
Back pressure flow control for half-duplex
Optional Rackmount Kit for 19? standard rack >>

 

[davidme]

yes but that hub does not allow you to transfer information from comp to comp at 1000...

only 10/100

 

[rayon]

I don't think using a 1000Mbps card is actually something you want to do in a 33MHz, 32bit PCI bus. This card would consume 125MB/s of the 133MB/s of the bus capacity.

Of course this assumes you had the money to buy a 1Gbps switch.

 

[ai42]

Product Link

Whoa....
&quot;The DGE-500T supports Full Duplex operation for 20/200/2000Mbps data rates and flow control.&quot;

Hehe now that is exessive speed. Awsome deal, retails for 100... I'm so tempted.

 

[Sinner]

Best use for this card

between a webserver and database server using crossover.
between clustered servers using crossover

Lots of server applications would benefit from 1gb LAN but most of us have no need for these cards.

Definitely worth it if you are using any kind of system in which servers talk to each other.

 

[Thyme]

Yes, but Sigity, we NEED bragging rights!!!!

 

[ChicagoMaroon]

If you have two computers you'd like to transfer data really quickly between, just get two of these cards and a crossover cable.

[EDIT]: Ah shoulda read Sinner's post first. Crossover already mentioned [/EDIT]

 

[Nightfall]

I have CAT5e wired all through my house. It would be nice to put Gigabit Ethernet in eventually. That time will come when the price goes down for the actual switches. Until then, 100base-t will be fast enough. Even for me.

 

[BigDady92]

screw that. I am putting one additional card in my gamer to crossover to my fileserver. This puppy has 5PCI slots on it and only 1 is used. I am using the rest for gigabit until I get a hub/switch to hook this to. With all the Cat5e cable I have (1000+ft) I will be running gbit copper all over the house

 

[SLEEPER5555]

A hard drive cannot serve up data faster than 100mb anyway so the 1000 would be a total waste!

Also does this use 5e or gigabit cable? I have noticed that the cheaper units run on gigabit wire while some of the more expensive ones can use the normal cheapo 5e.

Anyone know?

 

[Sigity]

Stop trying to convince me...

I told you...I don't need it.

The more you talk, the closer I am to clicking on that link.

Then...the credit card bill comes-minimum payment once again!!!!

sig.

 

[Igotgas]

cant hds sustain transfers of 300+ mb/s? of course, I don't know and I'm too damn lazy to go find out. I notice that my 100 bt lan transfers stuff slowly...so this gigabyte nic is quite attractive....

of course, like a prior post above, only until the hubs drop in price.

 

[KidViciou$]

ARRRGGHHH!!!! I WANT THIS SO BAD!!! i can capitalize on this with my raid setup. i dont have a problem spending the cash, but i feel like im not capitalizing my network right now. ive got a firewall thats asleep, and just two machines, one of which needs to be formatted.

 

[kombatmud]

the fastest hard drives today can sustain about 50MB/sec which is 400mbps, well over the speed of 100base-TX (100mbps) If you have RAID, you can get much higher transfer rates, and can take full advantage of the gigabit ethernet bandwidth. I would love to get one of these, because my 100base-TX network connection bottlenecks my dual OC-3 internet connection. Unfortunately, my switch doesn't support it, and neither do the other switches/routers in our network. I might pick up two of them for my two computers though.

 

[Burticus]

Hmmm. I've thought about 2 of these with a crossover between my fileserver and my cd-burner systems. But if it's going to max the hd's out at about 200 or 300 mb/s then is it worth it to turn a 7 minute transfer (average iso over fast ethernet) to a 4 or 5 minute transfer?

 

[nekote]

1000 Mbit will obviously become the new defacto standard.
The only question is how soon.

I think this performance ability will be of &quot;killer app&quot; proportion.
A paradigm changing force.
Of course, it probably will only yield up 100 - 400 or 600 Mbits.

Even so, with *THAT* level of speed, compared to the 10 - 40 or 60 Mbits 100 Mbit NICs get today, eventually I think we'll see it used as the method to have &quot;dumb&quot; human interface terminals (in / out - video, audio, keyboard, mouse, printer, scanner, ....) to the CPU / Hard Drives / Internet resources - back to the long ago centralized mainframe / data center type of concept, but probably done as a clustering type of arrangement and / or multi-processor.

At *THAT* level of performance, it is no longer the speed that is the issue, but rather that there is more or less nothing that can't be done over such a link with very, very little extra time delay. I see it approaching the level of a bit serial backplane, almost a memory bus. (Yes, of course, not matching today's and tomorrow's 133, 266 MHz, .... 64 bit / 128 bit wide backplanes, but more than over powering, say, 33 MHz at 8 or 16 bits.)