[Info-vax] DE500 and hardware version

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <nospam-82F7A9.12110404012013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
<nospam at sture.ch> writes: 

> I was looking to upgrade my home network to Gigabit ethernet just over a 
> year ago and was surprised how much kit in the marketplace was still 
> 10/100.  Basically unless Gigabit or 1000 was somewhere in the product 
> name or prominent in the description, 10/100 was what you would be 
> getting.

Well, consider that the typical home user doesn't run a LAN-based VMS 
cluster.  :-|  Most DSL connections are not more than 16 Mb/s, and most 
people essentially connect one device to the internet.  So, the 
bottleneck is the WAN connection; 100 Mb/s on the LAN is thus more than 
enough.  For people with several devices on the LAN who also transfer 
big files between them then, yes, Gb/s at home would make sense.

I picked up an old, big (32-port), 10/100, originally quite expensive 
switch a few years ago when to replace the 10 MB/S hub I had been using.
It died a couple of years later and I bought a new NetGear 10/100/1000 
switch for EUR 30 or whatever.  Seems to work fine.  Apart from my 3 
(sometimes 4 when I boot the satellite upstairs) nodes in my VMS cluster 
there is an access point which my wife uses for her iPad.  IIRC the WLAN 
speed is a few hundred MB/s but, again, the main bottleneck is the DSL 
connection.  Connections between the iPad and the VMS cluster are 
limited, though my wife does use the VT220 app to check email on the VMS 
cluster.  :-)  Since she can't type at 100 MB/s, we really don't need 
much more speed between iPad and VMS.