Re: Max Devices on ethernet adapters

Noooo... this was not a setup... I really wanted to hear
some reasonable folks talk about ethernet and how they go
about putting it into place.....

(a) We need the latest & greatest wiring we can get.
(b) We need some very high end fiber links
(c) We need some switches
(d) We need some gb cards on all our pc's.
(e) We need a adapter on the 400 (do we need more than one ?)

What does a first class switch cost these days ???
What does a fiber link(with associated boxes) cost ???
What does a nice gb rated card for our pc cost ???

Pat,

Yer settin' me up here ;-)

Two PAIRS! If yer usin' ethernet yer usin' 2 pair. If yawanna get to GbE (Giga Bit) then you need FOUR pairs (all 8 wires.) and it better be good Cat5 done right too. And didja know there are two flavors of GbE? The difference with Full Duplex is that with full you have a smart device on each end of the wire and Only one device on each end. So "A" has it's transmit pair conencted directly to "B's" recieve pair and vice versa. If they agree, then they can each speak simultaneously theoretically doubling bandwidth.

Cat 6 or better wire everywhere. SM Fiber betweeen all wire closets. 100Mb adaptors on most stuff, Gb adaptors on my servers, iSeries included. Gb switches in the computer room with 10Gb uplinks and 100Mb switches in the closets with Gb fiber uplinks to the computer room.

To make it more interesting, NO tech people ever at this site.

Lock the doors to the closets.