I currently have a cat5e network infrastructure running on 100 mbit cards
and hub.

If I was to upgrade to a 1gibt LAN (cards and the hub) would there be a
significant improvement on the speed of the network utilizing the existing
cat 5 cabling?

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:45:16 GMT, del@here.com wrote:

Well it depends on the network LAN activity...
Even when using 100Mbs NICs there are few applications that are using
100% of the bandwidth... (Outlook, Internet, FTP, database access...
all those thing do not need to get a 1Gig card... on the
workstation....)

But having 1Gig NIC cards on servers where several workstations are
getting connected to might help a lot... as the server will be able to
handle a lot more traffic rather than waiting for the signal that had
to go through a congested NIC...

Yannick

del@here.com wrote:

That's going to depend on whether the computers using it are capable of
using much more than 100 Mbit. Many are not.

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On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:45:16 GMT, del@here.com <del@here.com> wrote:
It depends on whether the machines can pump out 1Gb/s (~125MB/s). You might
be better off just upgrading the backbone to gigabit.

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So would the existing cabling support faster speeds?

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:53:56 GMT, del@here.com wrote:

Cat5e if properly terminated will support gigabit lans, yes...