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Jonyb222 t1_ivpnh07 wrote

I'm pretty surprised it had a 1 Gbit ethernet connect at that time, a quick google search tells me most hard-drives capped out at about 50MB/s or 400Mb/s in 2005 and those were likely for the Desktops.

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vMambaaa t1_ivpsrv4 wrote

the bandwidth of your NIC hasn’t nothing to do with the write speed of your hard drive.

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Jonyb222 t1_ivq05to wrote

Well yea, but you're not going to have much use of it a 1Gb connection if there isn't much you can do with it

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vMambaaa t1_ivq2fny wrote

…..you streaming content and loading web-pages has nothing to do with your HARD DRIVE write speed 😂.

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Jonyb222 t1_ivq6s20 wrote

There wasn't that much streaming going on in 2005, and you were limited by internet speeds, which in 2005 was roughly 1-2 Mb/s.

So the main place to use a 1Gb/s connection would be a local network

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Significant-Weight64 t1_iw0ccd8 wrote

A good high-bandwidth, low-latency network connection such as you might find at a university was great back then because it meant you often retrieve anything from the Internet faster than you could load it from your HDD.

Mind you, fast network connections are still great, but the days when the Internet could be faster than local storage are pretty much gone.

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galbi66 t1_ivppwol wrote

It's not 17 years ago this photo was taken. His laptop is 17 years old.

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vMambaaa t1_ivpyeti wrote

he’s probably thinking of the bandwidth of the physical NIC on the laptop vs the bandwidth of the internet connection and he’d be right to wonder about that.

idk how it was for things like laptops, but it wouldn’t be that uncommon to see a 100mb bandwidth NIC on an enterprise switch, although 1gb was certainly common as well.

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LichK1ng t1_ivqoyfh wrote

How are you pretending to be tech inclined? You aren't getting the inclination that he is referring to the fact if you download at 1Gbps and your laptops HD only writes at 400Mbps then it's a waste to have a 1Gbps NIC? And where were you working that a 1Gb NIC was common in 2005?

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