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On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 08:20 -0400, David Trask wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Yes...it makes a HUGE difference. </FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Although the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">terminal is still 100baseT....the server being able to serve it's data at</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">full speed allows the bottleneck to shift downstream to the client and not</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">at the server. A real world example is this: When I used to run at only</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">100baseT my kids couldn't really run TuxType in the lab....3 or 4 kids</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">could play and after that it was unplayable due to the speed. Once I</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">moved to gigabit....20 kids could play. </FONT>
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Since you mention TuxType....<BR>
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TuxType is known to use 73Mb/sec at 1024x768 at 16-bit (65,536) colors. I did bandwidth measurements a bit ago with this program at that resolution, using two methods, and both agreed.<BR>
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You *really* want Gig-E on your server. *Really*.<BR>
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--TP
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