how fast is too fast.
11 February 2011, 10:51 AM
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how fast is too fast.
just had an email from BT re leased lines for business. they offer up to 10Gbps 
No prices of course but my question is how fast is too fast for the home user. the leased line has a contention ratio of 1:1 so it would be all yours. with todays current HDD technology i think even full 100Mbit download speeds would overwhelm the write capacity on SATA drives, even the new SATA3. not sure about the Solid state stuff though.
what do the rest of you think?
No prices of course but my question is how fast is too fast for the home user. the leased line has a contention ratio of 1:1 so it would be all yours. with todays current HDD technology i think even full 100Mbit download speeds would overwhelm the write capacity on SATA drives, even the new SATA3. not sure about the Solid state stuff though.
what do the rest of you think?
11 February 2011, 11:08 AM
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And how fast is the network you use at home? "Maybe" it'll be 1Gbs if all wired but any wireless will be limited to 100Mbs (ish - for the 'n' stuff from memory? And that's theoretical max) so could you make use of it?
If you have an office of hundreds of people then it could be justified but for the home user? I'd say no. But then I'm sure someone will be along any minute now and say 'hey, I'd use that no problem ...' ...
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If you have an office of hundreds of people then it could be justified but for the home user? I'd say no. But then I'm sure someone will be along any minute now and say 'hey, I'd use that no problem ...' ...
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12 February 2011, 09:45 AM
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"hey, I'd use that no problem" 
If you could afford a 10Gb line now, I would also assume you would not skimp on your storage solution
For home use, for what I can afford, it is too slow... Leased lines do not feature in that though. 8Mb max here...
A single SATA disk can keep up with a 100Mb/s transfer no problem. The faster consumer SSD's can keep up with 1Gb/s transfers.
If you could afford a 10Gb line now, I would also assume you would not skimp on your storage solution
For home use, for what I can afford, it is too slow... Leased lines do not feature in that though. 8Mb max here...
A single SATA disk can keep up with a 100Mb/s transfer no problem. The faster consumer SSD's can keep up with 1Gb/s transfers.
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What would you do with 10Gbps? I've seen datacentres, with 100's of servers, that couldn't max out a 10Gbps line. You'd never need that kind of performance it home although I wouldn't mind having it.
If the contention ratio really is 1:1 then a 10Mbps line is going to be an eye-opener for the majority of people. 100Mbps would be a very nice speed to have at home.
If the contention ratio really is 1:1 then a 10Mbps line is going to be an eye-opener for the majority of people. 100Mbps would be a very nice speed to have at home.
15 February 2011, 05:54 PM
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i did a job at C&W in leeds and had my laptop with me, then it was a dell Inspirion 9400 a real beast then. he hooked me in to a gig port and i opened Newsleecher, Q up some demo Videos 
48 gigs worth and let rip
The speed ot came down was too fast for the laptop so the threads kept pausing.
I honestly think 50mb and 100mb is fast enough, i wouldnt say no to a gig hime pipe though as it will be fibre and latency will be ace and Pings low
48 gigs worth and let ripThe speed ot came down was too fast for the laptop so the threads kept pausing.
I honestly think 50mb and 100mb is fast enough, i wouldnt say no to a gig hime pipe though as it will be fibre and latency will be ace and Pings low
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