[Info-vax] DE500 and hardware version

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-01-04 12:01:35 +0000, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply said:

> 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.  :-|

You're quite right.    The typical home user does not cluster VMS, does 
not run VMS, and has never even heard of VMS.

Or as I've personally heard more than a few times from the grey-hairs 
that do recognize "VMS", "that's still around?".

>   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.

If you're installing, there's little point in not going GbE wired these 
days, and going 802.11n 5 GHz WiFi, given the (small) price delta for 
the parts.

You're probably going to be using this stuff for years, so cheaping out 
on the wiring or related parts is a false saving.  Particularly as home 
users start to add NAS.

Most new and most recent gear arrives with GbE and variously with 
802.11n WiFi capabilities these days, too.

When you start getting into 16 and 24 and more ports and managed 
switches, then the prices do go up.


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