1000Mbs????

We previously had two servers with 10/100 Mbs NIC's, a 10/100 Netgear switch and all PC's in the Domain have 10/100 Mbs Nic's.

We are now upgrading to new servers that have NIC's that run at 1000 Mbs, and a 3COM switch with two 1000Mbs ports and several 10/100 Mbs ports.

We connected each server to the 1000Mbs ports on the switch, using all Cat5 cable.

Should'nt our nightly backups from server to server run at a higher speed now? I know I probably won't see 1000 Mbs exactly, but I was shocked to see the backup from server to server is no faster then it was when all NIC's were 10/100.

Is there something else I need to do? I checked and the servers and switch are all running in Autosense mode. Also I looked it up and Cat5 should be fine for 1000Mbs?

What am I missing here?

Also, is there a utitlity I can use to see what speed I'm actually running at? The "Connection" icon in Windows just says 100Mbs. The server utility say that the ports are set to 1000 Mbs, but how do I know what speed they are actually transferring at?


Thanks, Steve.

 

Read this page: Giga is Not Giga.

 

THIS BITES

Giga means that the Internal Clock is running 1000MHz. Trying to attribute it to "Speed of Transfer" is a Marketing thing


taking advantage of the consumer market !!!!

 

dont mind me, they need a delete button.
Sounds like a windows setting to me, you have cat5e right, not copper? should say on the cable

 

Go into system hardware, go to your ethernet controller, go to properties, go to advanced, go to speed and duplex, make sure its set too 1000 full duplex

 

AFAIK, Plain old Cat5 should be fine. No need for 5e. At least that's what I've read.

Thanks for the responses.

I feel like someone just pissed in my cornflakes.


Steve

 

Not for gigabit... you need 5e for that. If you want to do it over copper you need the switches/nics to be configured specifically for it. AFAIK anyway