Re: How to upgrade a small network
From: Sean O'Dell (sean_at_REMOVEME.celsoft.com)
Date: 08/07/03
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Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 15:28:28 GMT
"/dev/rob0" <rob0@gmx.co.uk> wrote in message
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> In article <wMfYa.2204$t66.393@newssvr22.news.prodigy.com>,
> Sean O'Dell wrote:
> > I'm leaving the Linksys and DSL modem all at one end of the house
though; I
> > just like all that being at one end of the wire coming into our switch
where
> > the rest of the computers are. I don't know why, exactly; I just don't
like
> > the computer plugging directly into the router that NATs us off to
> > internetland. It's probably an irrational fear, I know.
>
> Yes, it is. :) The new switch doesn't provide any sort of protection
> whatsoever, nor does the physical distance from the router. I'd prefer
> to be able to see the lights on the DSL and router. Just a short time
> ago I had a cable outage, and it's handy to be able to see the cable
> modem and to type at the computer at the same time.
When I was using dial-up modems and even when I had ISDN service with
PacBell, that was really handy, but since we got SBC DSL 4 years ago
(through PacBell initially) we have had NO trouble with it at all, so when
we moved everything from where the DSL is installed (bedroom) to the other
end of the house, I never missed not seeing those lights.
> It wasn't long ago that I upgraded to 100Mbps ... it does make a HUGE
> difference for filesharing and VNC. Have fun!
It's a huge difference. My wife keeps a lot of her photoshop files on the
linux box because I have a cron script regularly backing things up there,
and she copies them to/from her mac or PC to work on them. She hates when
they grow past a couple dozen MBs because they took forever to copy over.
Last night she copied a 70MB file to the server (which was taking over a
minute before) in less than 10 seconds. Many of her files are in the
hundreds of MBs.
> BTW, did the active NIC's autodetect the new switch? From reading "man
> mii-tool" and playing with it, ISTM that they should. Autonegotiation
> appears to be the default with most NIC's and switches. I no longer have
> my 10Mbps hub, but I have changed between a 10/100 hub (half duplex) and
> a 10/100 switch (full duplex), and the changes are detected.
My Windows PC actually did go up to 100. Windows considered the NIC
"disabled" pretty much because it had nothing to talk to. Once it plugged
into the switch, it went straight to 100Mbps. I'm not sure about the linux
box because I already had the switch up when I installed the new NIC. I
assume mii-tool could have re-negotiated with the switch, if I had
hot-plugged the NIC from the hub to the switch.
Thanks again rob0,
Sean O'Dell
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