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    Faster than Gig-E

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by pitz, Apr 21, 2017.

  1. pitz

    pitz Notebook Deity

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    There's some new networking standards which use Gig-E-compatible wiring, but can deliver 2-5 gigabits/sec throughput.

    Any laptop vendors incorporating such into their products yet?
     
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    Standard name?

    Guessing nope.


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    There is such an intermediate standard which might I add is a great idea. It can deliver 2.5 Gbps on Cat 5E cables and 5 Gbps on Cat 6 cables - it's this.
    I haven't seen it implemented in any notebooks and I guess choice of routers/switches would be severely limited as well but that would be something I'd like to see as full 10 GBe is way to expensive to implement for most.
     
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    Yeah, my 10-year-old D830 can saturate Gig-E, and it seems weird that my much newer laptop runs into the same limitations. I use Ethernet for backups and for iSCSI. With the much faster/larger SSDs I can install in the new one, and faster processors, you think the networking would have kept up, but it hasn't.
     
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