Gigabit Networks and DR

[jujubee]

Been trying to decide if it's worth the investment. Does anyone think it makes that much of a difference to run DR over a gigabit network versus a 100 mbit one?

[percydaman]

if you have enough machines I would think its an absolute necessity. We just installed it here after getting our renderfarm setup.

[Syclone1]

have had gigabit here for the past few monts and will never look back, its soooooo much better than 100bt. Althoug Im looking into fiber as another posibility soon

-dave

[percydaman]

oy fiber.... my wife she's always a buggin me to get more fiber.

[Syclone1]

Uh wrong fiber Percy, although both kinds help you go faster :P

-dave

[Dynedain]

We're doing some office renovations at the moment, and as part of the process the servers, my renderfarm, and the "graphics" studio are all getting gigabit - yeehaw!

[ezrhythm]

most of mammas comes with Gbit onboard now, so basicaly the expense is WIRES and SWITCHES. We got 2 Sisco 16 Port Gbit Sisco Switches and the whole office has been rewired to CAT6.... Is amazing, i am dragging and droping hunderds of megabytes worth of frames here and there in a matter of seconds...

Backburner project submition including maps almost instant.

[jujubee]

I just found out at the store that I would need new CAT6 or 5e cables to gain the benefits. One more added expense I wasn't expecting but I still went through on it.

All I can say is that it's quite an amazing sight to see huge files being shuffled around as if they existed on one of your local hard drives.

[tammo]

are you sure you need new cables?

[jujubee]

I guess there's nothing absolutely saying that CAT5 cables wouldn't work- you would just have to monitor transmission speeds for packet loss. Perhaps I didn't need to make the jump to CAT6 and only from 5 to 5e. I found these articles below:

http://www.lanshack.com/cat5e-tutorial.asp
http://www.connectworld.net/syscon/support.htm

[ezrhythm]

read this: http://www.broadbandutopia.com/caandcaco.html

Look, we installed CAT6 in 6 points, ranging from 10 meters to 20 - all installation costed 400$, if you get cables and install by yourself it will be 3 times cheaper.

[tammo]

thanks for the links.
i can keep my 5e network and just buy a new switch and some network cards for the older computers.

12. Just tell me what cable I need...

If you need patch cords up to 25 feet, use CAT-5e stranded cable for ease of flexibility.

If you are making linger runs or going through walls or ceilings, I'd go ahead and use the CAT-6 UTP (solid) cables - if that seems a bit expensive, then go with the CAT-5e UTP.

[Syclone1]

great link ezrhythm, was some good info in there

-dave