[mythtv-users] Noobish network cable connection question, basement > upstairs

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Dec 5, 2008, at 8:10 AM, Ian Clark wrote:

> 2008/12/5 Travis Tabbal <travis at tabbal.net>:
>>
> [Snip]
>>
>> Gigabit probably doesn't do much for Myth. I doubt there are many  
>> streams
>> that 100M can't handle. It does make things like backups  
>> significantly
>> faster though. I also use it for general fileserver stuff, and the  
>> RAID5
>> over gigabit is faster than the 5400 RPM drive in my Mac Mini. It's  
>> worth it
>> if you do a lot of network based file access. It's not uncommon for  
>> me to
>> move a few gig at a time around, and it's nice to have the speed  
>> boost when
>> I do. I am not using jumbo frames, not worth the bother to me as I  
>> have many
>> 100M devices that wouldn't work with that setup.
>>
> How much faster do you find it? I used to get about 7M/sec or so on
> 100Mbit, and on gig I get about 10-12 at the most. I don't think I've
> got anything badly wrong. Maybe I was just expecting a bigger speed
> boost with gig.

You should be getting better speed with gigabit. I get 30-40 megabytes  
per second. I'm sure other people get similar or better.
This is between gigabit ethernet cards with jumbo frames on.

-Brad