On 03/07/2019 19:30, David Taylor wrote:
> On 03/07/2019 11:11, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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>> yes, but do they in fact NEED to?
>>
>> My router and my desktop both have gigabit capabiliy but really, what
>> IS the point when internet is only 7Mbps?
>>
>> And the house is wired CAT5 anyway.
>>
>>
>>   Two reasons for going SSD: speed now a full-speed USB 3 port is
>>> available, better life than an SD card (larger capacity, designed for
>>> more write cycles [perhaps]).
>>>
>>
>> Thats a bit like saying the reason to drive at 150mph is that the new
>> M1 can handle it.
>>
>>> The more I think about it, having the SSD as the system boot device
>>> might be a good idea as well.  Seems like that should be easy at
>>> least with the 3B+, and perhaps therefore the 4B.
>>>
>> It is good to have fast booting on a desktop, that does get booted
>> fairly often
>>
>> (Of course the whole rationale behind systemd was fast *server*
>> booting, which shows you what a swine poettering really is, but I
>> digress...)
>>
>> Mainly my complaint is that technology for the sake of it is really  a
>> waste of money and effort.
>>
>> So much of it doesnt solve an existing problem and introduces new ones.
>>
>> Take 'let's not wire stuff up: Let's use wireless"
>>
>> Now all that happens is speeds are down, because interference is up
>> and the whole spectrum is a mess, and connectivity is massively
>> unreliable.
>
> I'm often working with 100-200 MB files across the network, so the
> gigabit Ethernet is justified.

I workj wit gigabyte files across the network, but I dont need to pull
all of them in to my local machine before working on them. The point is
can yopu process the daty aqfaster tha t eethernet?>

In may case i cant, The bottleneck is CPU not network
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>
> My feeling, and reports, show a significant speed gain (operational
> speed - time is precious) from having as fast a disk as is (within
> reason) possible.
>
> Wi-Fi is a major boon here, and in many other places.  Phones and
> tablets, and not having to rewire the house with whatever UTP cable. Not
> to say it shouldn't be done carefully, or that's it's appropriate in all
> circumstances.  What suits me, won't suit others!
>

I cannot say that I have a single reliable wifi comnnectuion in this house.

Especially since today I had 5 devices hanging off two access points
(visitors). Apple kit couldnt get any bandwith at all, samsung was
pooor, to none and the Pi zero got slow

Its less than 10 m from the wifi points to where we were accessing them.

Frankly Wifi here sucks.,


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