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Gigabit LAN
Mmmm speed!
I tackled a few astronomy projects over my Christmas break (now back at work), had a great time tinkering and getting long waiting jobs done.
One that I managed to sort out was upgrading the network cable from house to observatory from CAT5 to CAT6 such that I now have full gigabit network compatibility between house and observatory. It makes copying all the large amounts of imaging data a breeze! 7GB in 5 minutes was one example I watched a couple of days ago. That's a lot faster than I was getting over the previous 100 megabit/s connection!
It's making backups etc much faster. However now the bottleneck is the Pentium4 2.6GHz observatory PC who's harddrives go flat out while the network is doing a backup off/onto it!
Roger.
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