Sawtooth has slow ethernet?

[Bluesmudge]

I have a cable modem and like my internet FAST! Is the lack of gagabit ethernet really slow my sawtooth G4 down? I'm using wireless right now but want to get the boost of a ethernet cable.
If it really is slower, can I use a PC ethernet PCI card, or do I need a mac specific one?

 

[inflexion]

gigabit ethernet (or the lack of) wont make any difference and wireless you will get a max speed of about 11Mbit constantly

 

[Bluesmudge]

gigabit ethernet (or the lack of) wont make any difference and wireless you will get a max speed of about 11Mbit constantly

So what is gigabit ethernet?

 

[dtravis7]

Gig Ethernet is for FAST File Transfers. Any Cable or DSL that I have seen will not even saturate a 10Base-T card leave alone a 100Base-T system. Remember, networking is not just for the internet, Before and since the Internet people use it for machines sharing data and transfering files between each other. If you do a LOT of large files between machines all the time, Gig Ethernet will really speed things up. To get full speed though, the rest of your system has to be up to the task like say the Hard Drives for example. The 10/100 Nic in your Sawtooth is just fine for ANY Internet usage as well as typical moving data between machines.

 

[baggss]

I have a cable modem and like my internet FAST! Is the lack of gagabit ethernet really slow my sawtooth G4 down? I'm using wireless right now but want to get the boost of a ethernet cable.
If it really is slower, can I use a PC ethernet PCI card, or do I need a mac specific one?

Doesn't the Sawtooth have built in 10/100 Ethernet?

 

[jhelm007]

Doesn't the Sawtooth have built in 10/100 Ethernet?

yes it does have 10/100 ethernet which is faster than any cable modem I've seen.

 

[lil]

Also for gigabit ethernet you need to have the correct cabling otherwise it will revert back to 100Mbit/s.

1Mbit=1/8th MegaByte or 128KB, so 1000Gbit=125MB/s theoretical top transfer speed; but that is not sustained transfer rate.

Dennis is quite right that other components in the system have to be up to spec. Even if you were getting a 64MB/s theoretical sustained transfer rate from gigabit ethernet—ATA133 and SATA 150 channels can't really deliver that sustained and that's when you need striped RAIDs to start hitting large transfer rates for hard drives—which means fast large cache drives and a dedicated RAID controller, the cabling...gigabit ethernet takes a little planning and for even the most typical ADSL/DSL Internet connection, 802.11g/10Mbit ethernet will be fine.

The PowerMac G4 Gigabit Ethernet (Mid 2000, Single 450, Dual 450 and 500MHz) onwards all have well... umm

Vicky

 

[Avalon]

To make it simple:
The fastest broadband connection I know is 20Mbit/s.

Wireless transfer speeds:
802.11b (Airport): max 11Mbit/s
802.11g (Airport Extreme): max 54Mbit/s

Wired Ethernet:
10/100 (standard): max 100Mbit/s
10/100/1000 (Gigabit): max 1000Mbit/s

Now the fact being that most broadband connections are below 10Mbit/s, any of the above would be ok.
The faster speeds are only a benefit within a local network, but not for the Internet.