[Info-vax] DE500 and hardware version

[Paul Sture]

In article <kc6ms3$rqj$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>,
 Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

> On 2013-01-04 13:59, Paul Sture wrote:
> > In article <kc6gav$252$1 at online.de>,
> >   helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply)
> >   wrote:
> >
> >> 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.  :-|
> >
> > Not a VMS cluster, but every PC sold in the last few years (3-4 years?)
> > has come with GbE, and there are a lot of NAS and media streaming
> > devices on the market.
> >
> >> Most DSL connections are not more than 16 Mb/s, and most
> >> people essentially connect one device to the internet.
> >
> > My cable company currently offers up to 100,000 Kbit/s down, 7,000
> > Kbit/s up:
> 
> [...]
> And not all countries are the same. So generalizations about what speeds 
> make sense at home differ very much from country to country.
> Also, not everyone uses DSL, so to even look at one specific technology 
> might fool you.

Very true.  And your recent comment about distribution via broadband 
instead of DVD is bang on the mark.  Folks in New Zealand for example 
are struggling to keep below their monthly caps where they have more 
than one Mac in use.
 
> I know that in some places in Sweden, you've been able to get 100/100 
> plain ethernet connections at home for about 10 years now.
> (I have not checked, or kept up to date, so I wouldn't be surprised if 
> you can get more nowadays...)

Yes, I remember being rather envious of those speeds.

-- 
Paul Sture