[K12OSN] Re: Server sizing in the real world

Thu Oct 13 12:29:15 UTC 2005

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 08:20 -0400, David Trask wrote:

> Yes...it makes a HUGE difference.  

<snip>

>  Although the
> terminal is still 100baseT....the server being able to serve it's data at
> full speed allows the bottleneck to shift downstream to the client and not
> at the server.  A real world example is this:  When I used to run at only
> 100baseT my kids couldn't really run TuxType in the lab....3 or 4 kids
> could play and after that it was unplayable due to the speed.  Once I
> moved to gigabit....20 kids could play. 

Since you mention TuxType....

TuxType is known to use 73Mb/sec at 1024x768 at 16-bit (65,536) colors.
I did bandwidth measurements a bit ago with this program at that
resolution, using two methods, and both agreed.

You *really* want Gig-E on your server.  *Really*.

--TP
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