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Mixing Gigabit, Copper, and Linux

Posted by timothy on from the way-faster-than-my-56K-dialup dept.

iampgray writes: "With copper-based gigabit cards selling for less than $36 these days, what kind of performance can you expect -- especially in the often-overlooked Linux market? We sought out to test exactly what you could expect from copper-based gigabit solutoins for the desktop interface through the cluster-targeted products. Name brands and off-brands were put through the wringer. How'd they fare? Interesting results to say the least."

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  1. i'm sorry by Jeff+Probst · · Score: -1, Redundant

    but gigabit and copper do not work well together. gigabit and fiber is where it is at.

  2. ./ed already by Partisan01 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    10 posts and it's ./ed already. Maybe someone needs gigabyte ethernet on the other end of the connection......
    br.

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    ahh, the egg in the basket..
  3. Hmmm... by MikeyLikesIt! · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Slashdotted in 2 minutes. Maybe their server needs one of those new-fangled gigabit NIC's...

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    I dunno... What do you wanna do?

  4. Slashdotting?? A way out?? by phoxix · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Slashdot needs to create some sort of local-copy system to use when the main site is slashdotted

    After all, what good does it do the slashdot community when we can no longer read the article??

    Additionally, the local-copy should be like Google's cashe system, this way all ad images would still point to whatever ad servers the pages originally had. (this would be to cover a reason why slashdot has yet to institute such a system)

    Just my two cents, all taxes included

    Sunny Dubey