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Originally Posted by scastle
I work for a Uni, so am also on a 100 Mbit network, and while it is nice to able to download things like Mandrake Linux (all CDS) in 12 minutes, you really don't notice the extra speed in normal use.
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I know what u mean, I'm sat here with in theory a 1gigabit connection, I have a 1gig card in this PC and then rest of the campus network is 1gig and our connection to the regional network (or MAN) and thus to JANET is also 1gig.
But I decided for security to NAT my windows PC behind my Linux machine and I only have 2 x 100meg cards in the Linux Machine. I suppose I could kick my feet and go to my boss I want two gigabit ethernet cards, but well I can't actually be asked, I class it in this situation as a waste of money!
I can't be bothered with downloading loads and loads of stuff. I was about to download red hat to put on a test server the other day and then didn't bother afterwards cause I found a copy on a server on the otherside of Campus, so zapped it across from there.
The only reason the broadband at home gets thrashed is because I live with some student mates who love their p2p, I on the other hand download occasionally but the rest of the time can't be bothered.