HardwareBanter - View Single Post - Tachi X570 has only 1 gigabit ethernetport kinda disappointing (notfuture-proof, no 10 GBe)

**Paul[_28_]** · July 13th 19, 04:30 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

wrote:
On Tuesday, July 9, 2019 at 8:59:00 PM UTC+2, Paul wrote:
Char Jackson wrote:

For Comp#2 to receive service, everything in the chain needs power.
And that costs money.

GbE GbE 10GbE
Broadband -------- entry_device ---------- Comp#1 --------- Comp#2
WAN ICS

Down here in the States, GbE on the WAN side is coming along very
slowly. It's available in my neighborhood for $60/month, but I'm lucky.
My guess is that it's available in less than 1% of total neighborhoods.
If it's common up in your neck of the woods, you're well ahead of us.

It's vaporware here. Supposed to be in Toronto.
Might be in a few appt buildings.

Skybuck mentioned not wanting a router in the picture, and
I assumed he's serially connecting his stuff in the horrible
ICS chain structure. Why else would you want two NICs on a
client PC ? Teaming and failover is a less likely reason.

Why would this be horrible ? Reduce bandwidth when both are being used ?

Can't be reason cause internet for now is way slower than local links

Bye,
Skybuck.

In the diagram, computer #1 must be powered in order for
computer #2 to have WAN access.

Let's say that computer #1 draws 100W at idle.

Now, if a router box could be used instead,
with a base power of 10W, and 5W additional power
for each LAN port (at 10GbE), then that only
draws 20 Watts. The router box saves power.

*******

I ran ICS long enough to do benchmarks once.

Back in the Win2K days, Win2K could only drive a
GbE interface at 40MB/sec (not 112MB/sec). And using
the diagram above, I could test this, without needing
a GbE switch. The networking gear at that time,
involved more 100BT NICs (11.2MB/sec). But I finally had two motherboards
with GbE on them to test.

Paul