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Linksys EG008W Gigabit 8-Port Workgroup Switch

Many new computers these days include a gigabit capable network adapter, however most small networks are only 100Mb because of the high cost for a gigabit switch. Linksys has broken that barrier with both an 8 and 5 port gigabit switch that comes in well under $200! I'm not just talking about a single gigabit port either, every port on these switches are 10/100/1000 Mb capable! Today we are going to look at the 8 port version, the EG008W.



Specifications:

Model Number: EG008W

Standards: IEEE 802.3, 802.3u, 802.3x, 802.3ab

Ports: 8 RJ-45 10/100/1000 Mbps ports, auto-sensing half/full duplex
All ports suppport auto MDI/MDI-X cable detection

Cabling Type: Category 5e Recommended

LEDs: Power, Link/Act, Speed, FDX

http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/revi ... 08W_1.html

1000mb WOWZSERS!

And that is supposed to work over existing Cat5?

I will be getting the 5-port once I upgrade my PC and a 1000b-t card for my file server :

SO how long should that actually take to transfer a 4.5 gig file like an mp2?
Like capture on one system, transfer and edit on a second system?

If your systems can actually sustain gigabit speeds, 45 seconds. Maybe even a little less. Of course there aren't any hard drives that can actually sustain that kind of speed, so you'd need a raid array. Then there's also the issue of the PCI bus being pretty much maxed out. The theoretical speed of a 32-bit bus is 132MB/s, but a lot of implementations can't break 100 on a sustained transfer. Actually getting up around full speed would require either onboard an nic & disk controller w/ system connections faster than PCI-32 or PCI-64. You'd probably need at least 66MHz PCI-64 if the disk controller & the nic are both cards or otherwise attached to the PCI-64 bus.
The worst case is probably a board where the disk controller & nic are both attached to the same PCI-32 bus. It's not really fast enough to begin with & now they're sharing bandwidth.
For a current system, I'd say you're looking at anywhere from 0:45 to 2:30.