tonyperk (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} tonyperk) wrote,@ 2008-03-23 11:28:00 |
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Network Upgrade
Earlier this year I made a short weather video to show at a chaser party. I keep all of my original video files on the rather safe Linux server in the basement. The PC I edit videos from first must copy gigs and gigs of video before I can do anything with it. That takes a while. If my network was faster, it would be less painful, and for shorter stuff it may be reasonable to just edit over the network. I also keep all of my pictures on there, so when I bring up folders and get thumbnails for preview, it may be faster for that too.
I found I had about $250 sitting in my PayPal account, a lot of which came from selling a $30 toy Darth Maul lightsaber on Ebay for a ridiculous amount of money. So I took this forgotten 'free' money, and got myself a gigabit ethernet switch. Using it required me to moves some stuff from the basement up here, so I just got to it this weekend. I also had to put new ends on 3 cables, because what cuts it at 100mb/s just doesn't for gigabit.
Before the install, I could get about 11 MB/sec over the old LAN. With the new install, it's now about 21-26 MB/s. That's 2x as fast so I'm happy.
I tried enabling Jumbo Frames (That's MTU of 9000 instead of 1500 for you techheads), but that didn't improve the speed. I blame one of the two ends not really having it enabled, and it's probably windows. More to try.
Earlier this year I made a short weather video to show at a chaser party. I keep all of my original video files on the rather safe Linux server in the basement. The PC I edit videos from first must copy gigs and gigs of video before I can do anything with it. That takes a while. If my network was faster, it would be less painful, and for shorter stuff it may be reasonable to just edit over the network. I also keep all of my pictures on there, so when I bring up folders and get thumbnails for preview, it may be faster for that too.
I found I had about $250 sitting in my PayPal account, a lot of which came from selling a $30 toy Darth Maul lightsaber on Ebay for a ridiculous amount of money. So I took this forgotten 'free' money, and got myself a gigabit ethernet switch. Using it required me to moves some stuff from the basement up here, so I just got to it this weekend. I also had to put new ends on 3 cables, because what cuts it at 100mb/s just doesn't for gigabit.
Before the install, I could get about 11 MB/sec over the old LAN. With the new install, it's now about 21-26 MB/s. That's 2x as fast so I'm happy.
I tried enabling Jumbo Frames (That's MTU of 9000 instead of 1500 for you techheads), but that didn't improve the speed. I blame one of the two ends not really having it enabled, and it's probably windows. More to try.
