Wtf, i can't believe this was even on/. As self described techno geeks you should know that a 100Mbps (fat pipe) on your end doesn't mean shit if there is a 1Mbps (small pipe) on the other end. I and even if it was 100Mbps to 100Mbps it still wouldn't matter because it would pass through a 1Mbps along the way. The packets would pass through exchanges that aren't gonna even approach that speed. And cisco switches have a function load balance or whatever, It basically prevents one node with a fat pipe from stealing all the throughput from all the others.
Besides The cost of laying backbone that fast would be outrageous, and At&t/MCI/Sprint would happily pass the cost to the ISP that tried to rent such lines.
So don't get your panites in a bind. It's the bottleneck, stupid.
As to the who-gets-to-decide-who-gets-it-bullshit. Money decides everything.
I work in Computer Management for the network control center of Minot AFB, ND. My side mainly deals with buying computers and software. I try to influence the thinking of my superiors, but NT4 is all they know or want to know. Nix is not even considered. I desperately want to change their thinking anyone have any ammunition to throw at them or any ideas to help change their mind?
FYI the base is split into 2 ncc's. The spacewing runs novell and we the bombwing runs NT only. The only nix is used is on the firewall and on the email server and its at&t's version whatever. Any questions give me an email i'll be happy to answer.
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I don't suppose anyone noticed the radeon graphics card in the g4 towers? $100 option. Improvement, yes.
Wtf, i can't believe this was even on /. As self described techno geeks you should know that a 100Mbps (fat pipe) on your end doesn't mean shit if there is a 1Mbps (small pipe) on the other end. I and even if it was 100Mbps to 100Mbps it still wouldn't matter because it would pass through a 1Mbps along the way. The packets would pass through exchanges that aren't gonna even approach that speed. And cisco switches have a function load balance or whatever, It basically prevents one node with a fat pipe from stealing all the throughput from all the others.
Besides The cost of laying backbone that fast would be outrageous, and At&t/MCI/Sprint would happily pass the cost to the ISP that tried to rent such lines.
So don't get your panites in a bind. It's the bottleneck, stupid.
As to the who-gets-to-decide-who-gets-it-bullshit. Money decides everything.
Yeah, you're right i'm sorry. Nevermind.
I work in Computer Management for the network control center of Minot AFB, ND. My side mainly deals with buying computers and software. I try to influence the thinking of my superiors, but NT4 is all they know or want to know. Nix is not even considered. I desperately want to change their thinking anyone have any ammunition to throw at them or any ideas to help change their mind? FYI the base is split into 2 ncc's. The spacewing runs novell and we the bombwing runs NT only. The only nix is used is on the firewall and on the email server and its at&t's version whatever. Any questions give me an email i'll be happy to answer.