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Just a quick heads up for people that Intel is now promoting its 10/100/1000 Pro 1000T gigabit Nics, $65US. They will be available before the end of the year, this is just the "I'm interested signup".

I think they want a few beta testers to try out some evaluation units before they sell them ...

Yup, setting a static IP will speed up the boot cuz it doesn't have to search for the dynamic IP.

It probably wont affect surfing/gaming performance much. I don't know for 100 percent sure, but the only time a dynamic IP is different than a static IP is when it asks for a new IP when the "lease ...

For most people a T1 is a waste of money. It was good technology 10 years ago, but it is dying now. 1.544Mbits up/down isn't a whole lot of bandwidth for what the going rate is.

If this is for a serious app, you should be considering leasing 1/128th of a OC3 (or better) line. It will probably be ...

Neotrace pro 3 isn't free, it is shareware. The Neotrace "Express" supposedly is freeware with email registration.

The pro version is worth every penny if you do any work that is internet related. Pro adds things like quicklinks to road maps, topographical maps and even satellite photos of the area ...

Use RG-6, its better for so many reasons.

As for types of RG-6, even a generic RG-6 will outperform ninety nine percent of brand name Rg-59 cable.

The two accepted leaders in the world of cabling are Belden and Commscope. (If anyone else knows of a contender please mention it)

Me, I like ...

Get it direct from www.linksys.com

They have updates for the 8 port as well.

Snipped from the ver.txt file:

1.38.5 Apr 12, 01 1. Modify PPPoE and RAS action include Setup and Status help UI
(Keep Alive will always try to keep the line alive)
2. Add SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection) function ...

Yup its IPV6 is just a different addressing scheme to allow more IP numbers. It does absolutely nada to increase internet speed by itself (it is usually bundled with QoS which will increase speed and reliability)

IPV4 is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

IPV6 is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (or you can use a special ...

Well, I'd say go with the 2Ghz splitter anyway if its only ten bucks more. 2Ghz ( satellite coax ) splitters tend to be made to a higher quality standard, gold plated enclosures with printed circuit boards.

The Mhz rating is is not as important the dB signal loss the lower the signal loss the ...

IMO, there may be a new "best" NIC out there:
http://www.intel.com/network/go/cat5/banner.htm

Gigabit over copper, sweetness... 3Com also has their new gigabit NIC's too. Personally I'm running the 3Com 3CR990 server NIC's and they do run faster than 905's when it is used with server applications ...

To the home, wireless is going to win for sure. If and when 802.11a gets going we will all have 54mbit/sec bandwidth over the air. It just costs too much to dig up the road to lay cabling.

The city<>city and continent links will still be fiber, but there will be no need to ever upgrade them ever ...

If you are getting no signal (lights on modem go out) I would definitely try out another service.

Vancouver isnt exactly the best place for reliable Cable internet, or DSL for that matter. The proximity to salt water and excessive rain moisture tends to corrode the copper cable and copper phone ...

That is still pretty decent upload speed considering Shaw has not finished off updating everyone in the area. 50KBytes during an upgrade is nothing to sneeze at, I would be mad if I got no service...

Once they have verified everyone in the neighboorhood loops and the cableheadend, most people ...

http://forums.internet.com/WebX?14@247.aPxJauQijP9^6@.eefb96e

Dunno if the link will work, for suicidal and truely hardcore knowledgeable beta testers only. No guarantees, use at own risk.

How in the world do they fit all that code into such a tiny EEPROM...

You should be glad Shaw is taking over. As a guy who unofficially worked for Shaw a long time ago, I can tell you that they really know their internet. The few times I have had to talk to Rogers people, it was almost scary how little they knew.

3Com has rolled out their Gigabit (1000BT) Network cards and Switches that run on standard Category 5 copper cabling.
http://www.3com.com/promotions/carjump.html

Quick notes:

3Com allows aggregation of up to eight (8) 1000BT Cat 5 links for 16Gbps of maximum theoretical throughput.

The ...

The NIC's aren't that bad with the exemption of the original 1.0 PCI versions. What happens is most people don't bother to get the correct drivers. EG: for the standard LNETX100 there are !SIX! different driver sets. Linksys should have really named their cards differently with each generation ...

Routers with integrated switches or hubs are great, and nowadays pretty cheap. There are a lot of reasons why people like them:

Extra IP's on @home usually cost around $10/month. With a router you don't have to pay this surcharge.

Running a dedicated Sygate/Wingate/Proxy is gonna waste over ...

http://www.theadminpage.com/cgi-bin/ubb/Ultimate.cgi

You should be getting about 40kbits per person to get good performance. Check with the speed test from DSLreports to determine if you have enough bandwidth before you even start (if you don't it is likely that there are too many people in your ...

I got a original 3com 905 that blew up on me a year ago. Supposedly all of the ethernet PCI cards do have a lifetime warranty.

Could never figure out where to send and if it would be worth it to bother :/ 3com actually does want bad units back to figure out where they failed.

They don't have to block *all* ICMP ping packets, they may let one or two through every few seconds. Packet limiting instead of packet blocking (Prevents denial of service attacks)

Use a real tracert/pinger like neotrace www.neoworx.com and then I think you might have a valid complaint. Ping your ...

I don't know if I should dignify this with a response but...

Of course it times out. @ Home blocks pings so that script kiddies and amateur hackers can't flood the system. You should be very concerned about ISP that do respond to pings.

The Realtek would explain a lot. I also heard that there was also a 256K buffer in there somewhere, either integrated onto the Linksys switched ethernet chip or on a seperate memory chip.

The Realtek may be doing nothing more than converting the signal for the Linksys 10/100 switched chip to use ...

I dont think 'USB vs actual NIC' is so much a question of throughput as it is CPU utilization.

Makers of NIC's like 3COM and Intel have spent years on the NIC chipsets trying to reduce the strain on the CPU when up/downloading. EG: Parallel tasking and CPU offload features.

Then comes USB which ...