Re: 10Gb Ethernet is now "aff
By: Weatherman to Digital Man on Sat Feb 08 2025 02:11 am

Hells bells man... I'm still living in the world of a 100 Mb/s LAN! Now, at work I deal with 10 Gb and 25 Gb connections (generally 10 Gb back end and 25 Gb front end).... For me, here at home, 100 Mb is "just fine." I

I thought 1 gigabit was fairly common/standard now on most computers, routers, switches, and such.. I have a couple of PCs and a router, all which have 1 gigabit ethernet onboard. Are you using fairly old equipment? I think the only things I have these days that only support 100 megabit ethernet are a couple of streaming devices (a Roku Ultra, a Nvidia Shield Pro), and a USB Ethernet adapter I use for a Nintendo Wii), and those are things that arguably would be fine with 100 megabit.

Nightfox

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Hey Nightfox!

On Sun, Feb 09 2025 23:38:32 -0600, you wrote:

Where I am, fiber isn't any more expensive than cable internet, and
in some cases, it can be cheaper. IMO it's not really a hard
decision if you have access to fiber internet service.

Except if the provider is completely unreliable in comparison to the cable provider (which would be the case in my area).

At the moment, I don't think any fiber providers are in Wisconsin. Otherwise we only have a couple choices. One of them is AT&T U-Verse, in which their service complete garbage. I've had Spectrum (formerly Time Warner Cable) for 20+ years, and their service has always been rock solid. I have their highest tier service at 1Gbps down, 30Mbps up.. which is the best I can get around here.

If Verizon's Fios ever shows up in these parts, I may check it out. Otherwise, DSL is out of the question for me. I'll just stick with what I have.

Regards,
Nick

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Re: Re: 10Gb Ethernet is now "aff
By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Feb 09 2025 03:38 pm

Where I am, fiber isn't any more expensive than cable internet, and in some cases, it can be cheaper. IMO it's not really a hard decision if you have access to fiber internet service.

The problem was landline phone service and local TV. I'm happy using VOIP.ms for SIP trunking/service, and am looking into IPTV for local channels. The rest we'll stream.

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Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Ah. I thought some fiber ISPs had a TV package too, but I know some don't.

AT&T does DISH TV, all I really need are a couple of local channels. I'd
rather stream everything else.



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Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Do you have good over-the-air reception where you live?

None, with an amplified indoor antenna. I have the coast range of
mountains between me and most of the TV stations.



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Digital Man wrote to Weatherman <=-

I noticed the subject of your reply was truncated (at 25 chars, I
assume). This suggests you don't have a HEADERS.DAT file in your REP packets set to VERT. Can you double-check your settings against https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:dove-net#step_4configure_your_qwknet_hub
? --
digital man (rob)

Rob,
I will do that. Not tonight, as I've enjoyed some Tullamore Dew and Heinekins, but will definitely check it out and fix it. Thanks for pointing it out!




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Nightfox wrote to Weatherman <=-

Re: 10Gb Ethernet is now "aff
By: Weatherman to Digital Man on Sat Feb 08 2025 02:11 am

I thought 1 gigabit was fairly common/standard now on most computers, routers, switches, and such.. I have a couple of PCs and a router, all which have 1 gigabit ethernet onboard. Are you using fairly old equipment? I think the only things I have these days that only support
100 megabit ethernet are a couple of streaming devices (a Roku Ultra, a Nvidia Shield Pro), and a USB Ethernet adapter I use for a Nintendo
Wii), and those are things that arguably would be fine with 100
megabit.

Nightfox

I'm using older 100 Mb/s switches. I have some 1 G/s switches here, but they're still in the box. My uplink is only in the 50-100 Mb/s range so I see no need to break out gigabit switches. Even most of my computers are only capable of 100 Mb/s anyway. I imagine if I had gigabit internet service, hell even 300 Mb/s service I'd be breaking out the 1G stuff, but for what I have on my uplink, 100 Mb/s LAN is more than enough.

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Re: 10Gb Ethernet is now "aff
By: Weatherman to Nightfox on Sat Feb 15 2025 12:28 am

I'm using older 100 Mb/s switches. I have some 1 G/s switches here, but they're still in the box. My uplink is only in the 50-100 Mb/s range so I see no need to break out gigabit switches. Even most of my computers are only capable of 100 Mb/s anyway. I imagine if I had gigabit internet service, hell even 300 Mb/s service I'd be breaking out the 1G stuff, but for what I have on my uplink, 100 Mb/s LAN is more than enough.

It's not just about your internet speed - If you copy files or other data between computers in your home network, it can be good to have the highest speed possible. But if your computers aren't capable, then I suppose it doesn't make much difference.

Nightfox

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I've bought so much tech gear over the past 40 years that ends up worthless and in a landfill (or my closet, I'm slow to throw out stuff I think I might use again one day), I try to buy new tech only when prices have come down considerably.

I try not to buy new computers unless I absolutely need it. This box
from 2018 will likely be around for another 2 years.


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Nightfox wrote to Weatherman <=-

It's not just about your internet speed - If you copy files or other
data between computers in your home network, it can be good to have the highest speed possible. But if your computers aren't capable, then I suppose it doesn't make much difference.

Nightfox

What I've got works well enough. Don't move many files from computer to computer and when I do they're usually fairly small. Stream from a UMS instance, plenty of bandwidth for that. I'm able to do everything I need and want to do with 100 Mb/s.



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