Gee, I'm asking a lot of questions lately.nice that they're all being answered with great info!
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I was so annoyed when I realised my Dell Vostro 1700 didn't have gigabit. I thought it did because it has 802.11n and other nice features. So is there a way to upgrade it, or is it an irreplaceable part of the motherboard?
Is expresscard the only option?
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Its part of the motherboard...can't be swapped. But, you could get an Expresscard GigE adapter.
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Expresscard/34 is about the smallest you'll get.
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I just read on a forum though that laptop drives aren't really fast enough to bother anyway. Would that be true with my 5400RPM drives?
I wonder if 270Mbps 802.11n will be good enough and that the drives won't really perform much better than that. -
NotebookYoozer Notebook Evangelist
it depends on what you're using it for. if all you do is surf/torrent/download/etc... you won't see a difference in speeds, only range.
if you do a lot of LARGE file transfers between home computers, then the speed will help.
i'm not sure i understand your point about HD speeds? -
The person on this forum didn't explain it, but I'm assuming that they meant that common laptop drives (2.5", and often with less RPM), have a lower transfer rate/performance than desktop HDDs, but I don't know if this is true or not. -
The biggest factor isn't HDD speeds. When transferring across the net, you're limited by your DSL/Cable/Dial-up/FIOS connection...your networking equipment will be much faster than your internet connection.
GigE improves internal transfers only. 1000Mb/s = 125MB/s. And in reality you'll get probably 50-80% of that at best. HDD speeds, even for laptops, are up for that transfer rate. -
blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso
I can hit my max HD speed on my desktop pc with GigE, coming from my NAS. But i have close to 80MB/sec (FTP) on GigE. So a 5400 rpm NB drive or slower you may hit in the 30-50MB/sec range. Writes to HD are slower. FTP give you the fastest transfer speed, eliminates MS Overhead. Use FTP Client software for best performance. FileZilla gave me the best performance.
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Upgrade laptop to gigabit ethernet
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by frenchglen, Mar 16, 2008.