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Given the price difference now you might as well just get gigabit
equipment. You can always run it slower if you need to for cabling
reasons. If some equipment doesn't like a CAT5 cable then you might
get network errors, but don't rewire everything until you've tried it
because short CAT5 cables might be fine for gigabit. For new cables
get CAT5e of course.<br>
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I think without jumbo frames (9000MTU) you might not be able to get
full gigabit speeds. For 1500 byte frames with GigE your transfer
speeds might top out at around 400Mbps, and CPU usage might be a
concern. Here is an old but good article about jumbo frames:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sd.wareonearth.com/~phil/jumbo.html">http://sd.wareonearth.com/~phil/jumbo.html</a> I dig the retro HTML layout.<br>
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Dan Kulinski wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">Use ethtool <interface name> to discover the
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<div style="">Cat5E is the required cable to run gigabit speeds. If
you don't have the cables, Monoprice is a very cheap place to purchase
what you need. I was transfering a set of game files from my PC to my
son's PC and we hit 45MB/sec. If he had a more modern PC with an SSD
it would have been even faster.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Adrian
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What are my chances of actually getting gigabit speeds? How to I check
if my network cards are compatible? It is essential to have cat5e
cables?
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<div>I had to replace a network switch in my family room and only
now realized gigabit switches are common. Now I'm deciding if I should
replace my main network switch at my server to gigabit. I need to get
at least 8 ports which is starting to get expensive for me.
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<div>My computers are two years old, except my server is a decade
old. I had my house wired for ethernet last year. House cables are
stamped with cat5e. But my random cables between equipment and switches
are not cat5e.</div>
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<div>I do occasionally transfer some large encrypted containers and
camera picture and video files between my computers and server (not a
big deal though).</div>
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<div>Thanks!</div>
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<div>Adrian</div>
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