Josh Welch said: > That being said unless you have some serious hardware I wouldn't worry > about doing "FULL SPEED gigabit networking". Most home computers would > have a hard time filling a 10/100 link. It takes quite a bit of CPU > power and a decent system bus to move data at gigabit speeds from the > disk to memory to the network and back again. I've recently setup a > dedicated GigE storage network for IP storage and backup traffic. The > highest traffic I've seen so far at any sort of sustained rate was > 120Mb/sec, that was from a dual 2.8GHz Xeon machine, although it is > running Windows ;). > > Josh Windows!?! :) I'm sure you're right about current home computers. I just don't want to have to re-wire the house in five (or ten or n) years, when gigabit will be no sweat for some machines. I fully understand that 10G networks may be available then, but I want to buy cable this year, not wait for specs to settle out. Chris