For the average consumer sitting at the end of a cable connection, somewhat the best available ... mine is 8 MBit down, 512 KBit up, it doesn't matter one wit. Just throw up a monitoring program and watch. Business use, yeah it could make a difference, especially what I do, software development, where compile time is an issue. I just offload it to a local server -- A 4 GByte AMD x2 5000.
I wish my network was so capable and had so much bandwidth it has to wait for me ...
^^^^^^^^^^I wish my network was so capable and had so much bandwidth it has to wait for me ...^^^^^^^^^^^^
ROFL.......... well I'm not sure the exact numbers but our up/download speeds can't be any more than 10mb.
It's not like we're crunching 3d environments and scientific numbers, it's simple accounting work; web based. The files we work with are relatively small.
It's not that our internet bandwidth is several gigabit or anything, but our network backbone(the hardware in the server closet) is awesome. But it's more than capable for what we do.
Our network waiting for us is literally because our workstations are *that bad*.
Think about what you'd get if you had that 8mb download pipe on a 486. That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but I think that gives you an idea of what I mean.