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    Gigabit Ethernet Need-to-Know

    You have to be very careful what you are actually measuring! (Or to put it another way I ask the marketing folks what results they want and come up with the appropriate benchmark :) ) Be aware that Windows XP and below have very small caches defaulting to 10MB no matter how much memory you...
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    Gigabit Ethernet Need-to-Know

    PXE is a standard for network booting - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment In my example all my machines can network boot. I can change network to be first in the BIOS boot order. The first part of the network boot then offers me a menu. I have the following...
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    Gigabit Ethernet Need-to-Know

    I have been developing the SMB/CIFS/SMB2 protocol since the early 90's. SMB2 has nothing to do with performance except the kool aid from Microsoft Marketing. The existing SMB/CIFS stack in pre-Vista operating systems was a huge hairy brittle mess. It dated back to the days of Xenix and OS/2...
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    Linksys WRT610N Simultaneous Dual-N Band Wireless Router Reviewed

    It also depends on what you use the device for. In your case all machines are accessing the Internet. Standard DSL is 1.5Mbps while cable and some providers have DSL up to 6Mbps. That latter is just over half the speed of wireless B. I saw no issues with this router at those speeds. It is...
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    Gigabit Ethernet Need-to-Know

    The 10GigE and 100GigE comment was not in the context of hard drives, just pointing out that GigE is not currently the fastest conventional networking you can get :-) The current fastest hard drives have a 3GBps interface so a single drive could theoretically saturate a GigE connection...
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    Gigabit Ethernet Need-to-Know

    The file transfers are the killer for me. With 100Mbps your file transfers are limited by the speed of the network. With GigE you are limited by the speed of your hard disks. If you use a DV camcorder, the files are 10GB per hour. My backups are 27GB. A related place this performance...
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    Linksys WRT610N Simultaneous Dual-N Band Wireless Router Reviewed

    I don't think it is a manufacturing flaw in the sense of forgetting to connect a wire - the product does fundamentally work. I did some more experimentation before returning the box. If I changed the crypto to be AES rather than auto (even though I thought WPA2 only does AES) then the dropouts...
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    TRENDnet adds dual-band draft 11n router TEW-672GR

    But many do. Or at least they make your browser sit there for several seconds while they "apply" the change, which in the olden days basically was the router restarting!. I guess the more complex firmware now takes too long to reboot so they just restart some daemons and hope for the best...
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    Linksys WRT610N Simultaneous Dual-N Band Wireless Router Reviewed

    Linksys WRT-610N I tried the Linksys WRT-610N this evening and found problems with it too. [Ed. See this thread.] The 5GHz band is unreliable when transferring bulk data (eg camcorder files) - it goes nice and fast for about 5-15 seconds and then dies for about 60 (confirmed with perfmon...
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    TRENDnet adds dual-band draft 11n router TEW-672GR

    I certainly understand that. The problem is that most "professional" reviews I see on the net seem to have used the device for a maximum of 30 minutes. The person buying the device uses it for years. Those 30 minutes do not seem to be a good indication of how it will behave for years unless...
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    TRENDnet adds dual-band draft 11n router TEW-672GR

    It was pointless paying for a dual band if I could only use one of the bands. You can get good 2.4GHz only B/G/N devices from almost anyone or 5GHz only N addons. When the 673GR comes out I'll give that a try, unless I give up and just get the WRT610N. The port forwarding and admin system...
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    TRENDnet adds dual-band draft 11n router TEW-672GR

    I got one of these a few days ago from Frys and ended up returning it. Firstly note that it is not simultaneous dual band. You either use 2.4 or 5GHz, but not both at the same time. Of course none of the packaging or marketing makes this clear. (I did see a comment elsewhere that a 673GR...
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