[Info-vax] DE500 and hardware version

[Hans Bachner]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply <helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de> 
wrote:

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> Right; as I said, it is interesting for people with more than one
> device on the LAN.  But I suspect that most people have just a PC
> connected to the internet.

Well, given your shadow sets being distributed across nodes a Gigabit 
link would speed up shadow copies/merges remarkably.

Gigabit cards for AlphaServers are easy to get if you follow Steven 
Schweda's instructions to "re-brand" Compaq Gigabit cards (he mentioned 
that in the previous thread).

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> Right.  Like in some third-world countries where people went from not 
> having a phone at all to having just a mobile, Gb ethernet might have 
> been leap-frogged by people who need more bandwidth, going directly to 
> wireless.

For the masses, wireless is still far from Gigagbit speed. To make 
things worse, wireless connections usually use a "shared medium", so 
speeds drop with an increasing number of users in the same cell. (This 
may not be an exact technical explanation, but describes the resulting 
situation).

Hans.