markr1963

I'm lead to believe this is possible. Can anyone confirm this? Assuming this is possible then can anyone recommend NICs and switches? I've seen Intel NICS at £30 a pop and Netgear unmanaged switches for abot £440.

TIA
Mark

David_Wallis

probably can but its supposed to be over cat6 maybe cat5e, cant really remember

10gbaseT is possible over 6.

David

GaryScoobNCBR

Yep this is possible, we run that here, we use a gigabit hub with gigabit network cards and the connection shows as 1gb

gutter-rat

Watch out for the Netgear Switches.
Not all of their stuff will provide gigabit to all the ports all the time (the backbone can't handle it!)

markr1963

Cheers all

If Netgear are a bit iffy are there any others worth a look without paying stratospheric Cisco prices?

Mark

gutter-rat

Their not iffy if your not achieving gigabit all the time on the all the connections.
Most Netgear's can handle 2 or 3 machines running full-duplex gigabit at any one time.

Unfortunatley you get what you pay for.

GaryScoobNCBR

also whats the likely hood of more than 1 or 2 machine running at anywhere near capacity all the time?

gutter-rat

V.unlikely.
If they are all using that much, you can come and work with the performance guys, with me!

markr1963

Thanks again

Fair point gutter-rat and GaryScoobNCBR. Doubtful we'd ever have more than a couple running full pelt.

So Netgear would appear to be back in the frame

Mark

Chris L

You should be able to get GigE over cat 5. However, I would check carefully the cable runs and proximity to power supplies etc - anything that could cause interference and degrade the signal quality.

Chris