Torgeir Bakken (MVP)
April 4th 03, 07:29 PM
Fred wrote:
> The question is not "why not", it is why.
>
> You answered it yourself, but you haven't thought it through yet.
>
> Take a gander at the speed of your system, the drives, the memory, the
> processor et cetera. Now, think about where the data that you
> transfer over a LAN comes from, and then look at the speeds you wrote
> down. Now, since a 10bt lan is faster than everything in your system
> anyhow, why improve it? If you have a high speed Internet connection,
> then using 100bt is worthwhile.
>
> On a 2 computer network, 100bt is no faster than 10bt at transferring
> large files or groups of files, as the disk can not produce enough
> data to overcome the speed limit of either card.
Hi
This is wrong. Unless you have a very ancient computer, disk I/O can easily
overcome the the speed limit of a 10bt lan card...
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torgeir
Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of the 1328 page
Scripting Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter
> The question is not "why not", it is why.
>
> You answered it yourself, but you haven't thought it through yet.
>
> Take a gander at the speed of your system, the drives, the memory, the
> processor et cetera. Now, think about where the data that you
> transfer over a LAN comes from, and then look at the speeds you wrote
> down. Now, since a 10bt lan is faster than everything in your system
> anyhow, why improve it? If you have a high speed Internet connection,
> then using 100bt is worthwhile.
>
> On a 2 computer network, 100bt is no faster than 10bt at transferring
> large files or groups of files, as the disk can not produce enough
> data to overcome the speed limit of either card.
Hi
This is wrong. Unless you have a very ancient computer, disk I/O can easily
overcome the the speed limit of a 10bt lan card...
--
torgeir
Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of the 1328 page
Scripting Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter