On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Matthew Sackman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 02:07:15PM +0100, Robert Davies wrote:
> >
> > [...] I guess the main question was if the time put into it paid off and
> > would you do it again, or insist on the Giga-Ethernet route?
>
> It's a lot cheaper than Giga-Ethernet and is beneficial. If you really
> need the extra bandwidth that GE provides then you have no choice,
One of the more useful advantages of GigE is that it is a 1/10th of the
latency of 100Mb and 1/100th of the delay 10Mb networking.
It takes over a 1msec for a 1500byte packet to go through a 10Mb network.
-Paul
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