we should have the mod delete all the people with bad numbers people are throwing out.
GigE or Gigabit is 1000Mbps/megabits. One byte is eight bits, for a megabyte rate divide by eight. 1000/8 = 125MBps. 125 Megabytes of theoretical bandwidth. actual bandwidth is lower, as has been previously stated.
GigE 1000Mbps, 125MBps, 125,000KBps
FastE 100Mbps, 12.5MBps, 12,500Kbps
Ethernet 10Mbps, 1.25MBps, 1,250KBps
again 1 Byte is 8 bits not 10.
Originally posted by: shuttleteam
Fortunately my Mac laptop has an autosensing port. No crossover cable needed when doing the direct hookup thing to any computer.
That's standard for all 10/100/1000 Mbps ports on NIC's and switches alike. Goodbye crossover cables forever!
-DAK-
yeah GigE is handy like that, i believe its due to the fact that it uses all 4 pairs on copper don't remember the details
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
I recently ran into a situation where GigE came in handy.
Eight machines, all running a lot of networked apps/data.
Linksys 9-port switch. Eight ports are 10/100 autosensing. One is a 1G uplink port, and connected to the network server.
The 1G port can easily keep the other 8 pipes full.
- M4H
perfect!