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phreenet · 02-07-2002, 09:32 PM

Good Score dude. Is it Fiber or Copper media? You can't beat Netgear for their price/performance, and since you are using it for home networking, I would use Netgear myself, Netgear GA622T for copper connection and Netgear GA621 for Fiber. Keep inmind though that as you use gigabit you are really pumping alot of data, 1,480,000 Packets Per Second max. That requires a computer with some balls, these cards will work with 32-Bit PCI slots, but 64 is definitly recomended. Also you start to notice your hard drive becoming a bottle neck if you are tring to move data and do other things at the same time. Also these cards will work with CAT 5e but I would recommend some High Quality CAT 6 or even CAT 6e to maintain that signal quality, Hitatchi makes great cable.

02-07-2002, 09:32 PM	#4
phreenet Cooling Savant Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Gloucester, Virginia Posts: 356	Good Score dude. Is it Fiber or Copper media? You can't beat Netgear for their price/performance, and since you are using it for home networking, I would use Netgear myself, Netgear GA622T for copper connection and Netgear GA621 for Fiber. Keep inmind though that as you use gigabit you are really pumping alot of data, 1,480,000 Packets Per Second max. That requires a computer with some balls, these cards will work with 32-Bit PCI slots, but 64 is definitly recomended. Also you start to notice your hard drive becoming a bottle neck if you are tring to move data and do other things at the same time. Also these cards will work with CAT 5e but I would recommend some High Quality CAT 6 or even CAT 6e to maintain that signal quality, Hitatchi makes great cable. __________________ Dual Pentium!!! 933@1107 Liquid Cooled.