You can now sign up for Singtel's crazy-fast 10Gbps fiber broadband plan

HardwareZone

February 3, 2016

ricky lin 10 seconds

Thought notebook don't come with 10Gbps Ethernet adapter.

If the GPON/router/WLAN is used - the maximum throughput for WLAN IEEE802.11ac - is about 1.2 Gbps.

Notebook also does not come with IEEE802.11ac - 1.2Gbps wireless adapter.

Alvin2 hours ago

My Singtel broadband internet is 200 Mb/s (megabits per second) which is equivalent to 25 MB/s (Megabytes per second).

My download speeds never ever crossed the 1 MB/s (Megabyte per second). mark and is always slow even if only 1 computer is using the internet.

The price paid for an expected service standard has never been met.

ricky lin 10 seconds

10Gbps network oonnectivity is usually used in :-

(1) network backbone

(2) network uplink

(3) server connectivity - esp for cloud based apps and virtualisation whereby many virtual servers are packed into 1 physical servers - thus require very high speed LAN connectivity whereby 10 Gbps can provide.

Thus end devices like notebook, iPad, smartphone, Wireless LAN still cannot catch up.

Thus this 10 Gbps required a high-end PC (to be installed with 10Gbps ethernet adapter) or server or high-end workstation to used it and harness the end-to-end speed.

Good for SOHO or those users who required high-speed connection to do R&D or do business or for entertainment.

ricky lin 10 seconds

For eg. notebook - mainly come with 1Gbps ethernet connection.

Notebook, iPad and smartphone - using WiFi of IEEE802.11a/b/g/n of 11Mbps, 54Mbps, 450Mbps adapter and can only run in this speed.

New WiFi IEEE802.11ac run at 1.3Gbps - but no wlan adapter for Notebook, iPad and smartphone.

Thus end devices become the bottleneck - not the 10Gbps speed.

ricky lnow

The transfer speed of the network is usually not the problem unless the network bandwidth is congested.

The IOPS (input output per second) - from the PC or notebook to storage harddisk - is usually the important measurement for file transfer because IO of the mechanical transferring of files between server - memory, CPU, network, server bus into harddisk storage which have mechanical read and write, file directory etc ---- are IOPS performance - which is much slower than the network transfer speed.

ricky lin 10 seconds

If the notebook run out of memory and disk space - it will result in very little swap space or if the harddisk is fragmented in storing the files - where files are not contiguous in storage ---- it will have more read, write and placement of files all over the disk space - it will impact on file transfer performance.

Thus it is not so simplistic to pin the file transfer performance on the network speed ---- there are many contributing factors to the slower file transfer speed.