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I was telling my mother about my hackintosh woes (i’m upgrading and it’s being a cunt, as they do) and she decided to buy me a new iMac. She sprang for this ethernet option, despite my telling her i don’t know anything about it:
“The 10Gb Ethernet option supports Nbase-T industry-standard 1Gb, 2.5Gb, 5Gb, and 10Gb network speeds using an RJ-45 connector. With 10Gb Ethernet, iMac will provide higher connectivity bandwidth for sharing files between desktops, working with high-performance network storage, or handling large-capacity data loads.”
I’ve never heard of this; i’m gonna need a special kind of ISP account to take advantage of it, right? Or will i just magically get better speeds? i’m already pulling torrents down at around 8-9 mb/s on other computers
- Or is this for local networks?scarabin
- Local network. If you have a local file server it means you can open big files faster.
Will not make your internet faster.monNom - Can I borrow your mum?Continuity
- I'll give her back, I promise. Just that my MBP is from mid-2014, you see.Continuity
- Ohh, okay. Will the other machines on my network need this feature to see file transfer speed improvements on the iMac?scarabin
- You'll need a router that supports that kind of speed and, yes, your other computers would need to have the same tech. There's an off chance you'd have tozarkonite
- upgrade your wiring. It has to be IEEE802.3ch compatible.zarkonite
- Lol continuityscarabin
- Okay, cool. Thanks guys!scarabin
- When/if "internet" gets faster, the iMac would be able to support it. In theory.monospaced
- dayum. scarabin's mom is loaded.
she single?pango - She’s dating her boss. And some other dude. I guess it’s complicatedscarabin
- Uggghhpango
- too many competitions.pango
- You got this, pango... also—your mom’s badass, scar :)PonyBoy
- I’ll put in a good wordscarabin