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re: Lafayette, LA may have the best ISP in the nation.....
Posted on 5/30/14 at 3:57 pm to Korkstand
Posted on 5/30/14 at 3:57 pm to Korkstand
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At the office, an employee likely has a gigabit or 10gigabit connection to the local server
That's not accurate. The employees have a 1Gbps pipe coming into the building from the ISP that they ALL share along with servers, phones, VPN, etc. No one at any time will have a full Gbps connection, unless they happen to be the only one there and no other equipment is up and on the network and no devices between the PC and the ISP throttle it.
Not to mention some Cisco devices in production still have 100Mbps ports so if your pc is in the office with 1Gbps coming in, 100Mbps to the switch and a computer NIC of 1Gbps (which some older NICs are still 100Mbps max) that person is throttled to 100Mbps and I assure you never uses that on normal business.
I've seen some companies with offices of 20 people never get above 300Mbps total bandwith usage during PEAK times.
So 20 people share 300Mbps why does 1 need 1Gbps at home?
Posted on 5/30/14 at 4:21 pm to loopback
quote:yep
That's not accurate. The employees have a 1Gbps pipe coming into the building from the ISP that they ALL share along with servers, phones, VPN, etc.
quote:yep
No one at any time will have a full Gbps connection, unless they happen to be the only one there and no other equipment is up and on the network and no devices between the PC and the ISP throttle it.
quote:Aren't we talking about tech companies moving operations to locations where their employees have access to gigabit at home? I am more than sure their 100megabit equipment would be long gone.
Not to mention some Cisco devices in production still have 100Mbps ports so if your pc is in the office with 1Gbps coming in, 100Mbps to the switch and a computer NIC of 1Gbps (which some older NICs are still 100Mbps max) that person is throttled to 100Mbps and I assure you never uses that on normal business.
quote:What type of company? Any remote users? What kind of data did they work with? What does the internet traffic consist of? Did they use local or hosted services?
I've seen some companies with offices of 20 people never get above 300Mbps total bandwith usage during PEAK times.
quote:Let's just go with your numbers here, and let me ask: how fast a connection do you believe a remote user needs in this company? Surely you aren't suggesting he only needs 300/20 = 15Mbps, are you? So users on the intranet can use company resources at 100mbps, gigabit, or even 10gigabit, but the remote user has to settle for 15mbps? No, surely you can't be saying that. Does he need 100mbps? That way he's at least on par with the slowest of the office workers, and his use should still be sporadic enough as to not interrupt the 20 office workers' internet connection.
So 20 people share 300Mbps why does 1 need 1Gbps at home?
Posted on 5/30/14 at 11:40 pm to loopback
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That's not accurate. The employees have a 1Gbps pipe coming into the building from the ISP that they ALL share along with servers, phones, VPN, etc. No one at any time will have a full Gbps connection, unless they happen to be the only one there and no other equipment is up and on the network and no devices between the PC and the ISP throttle it.
What?
Are you not aware that, so long as all of the devices along the way from PC to server in a LAN have gigabit ports, that the PC will get a gig link, regardless of what other devices are on the LAN? (Assuming the devices in this example aren't being pushed so hard that they start to fail)
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Not to mention some Cisco devices in production still have 100Mbps ports so if your pc is in the office with 1Gbps coming in, 100Mbps to the switch and a computer NIC of 1Gbps (which some older NICs are still 100Mbps max) that person is throttled to 100Mbps and I assure you never uses that on normal business.
Even cheap routing and switching products have Gig ports these days. The Cisco Small Business line has switches and routers with gig ports.
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I've seen some companies with offices of 20 people never get above 300Mbps total bandwith usage during PEAK times.
I work for an ISP and I agree, I see it a lot. That doesn't mean companies shouldn't roll out higher bandwidth options. Technology is growing exponentially, thus bandwidth needs are growing at a rapid pace.
Posted on 5/31/14 at 2:14 pm to loopback
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loopback
Sorry you have such a poorly wired work environment
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