Gigabit Networking for the Home?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday April 8, 2004 @04:20PM from the dealing-with-advancing-technology dept.

The Clockwork Troll asks: "I've had a whole-house audio/video distribution project on the back-burner for a while now. As gigabit networking hardware prices come down to earth, I'm tempted to jump on the 1000BaseTX bandwagon. As far as I can tell though, the current crop of consumer-priced hardware/software doesn't address a couple key issues, namely: fragmenting jumbo frames for the benefit of legacy clients - this is critical as some of the devices on my network will not tolerate the 9000+ byte Ethernet frames which are needed to get the most out of gigabit; and OS support - do Linux and Windows require much tweaking to take advantage of gigabit? Will most drivers automatically optimize themselves? A Google search didn't reveal too much consensus, especially on hardware choices. What switches and software configurations have Slashdot readers been using for home gigabit networks, in particular mixed ones (100/1000BaseTX?"

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Re:Gotta shuttle by morelife · 2004-04-08 16:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

BRECKER!!!
Re:In your house? by Qutec · 2004-04-08 19:20 · Score: 0, Offtopic

presently 9 PCs, includes four that are used as central stores of massive amounts (around 900GB apiece, give or take) of video content
You got 3.6TB of pron online all the time? And have access speed issues with the files?? ...OK, so you do need a fast network....slow pron is just as enjoyable, IMO!