After buying a pair of Netgear GS108NA 8-port switches (with jumbo-frame support), I set out to test jumbo frames performance on a Linux server. I didn't really understand what I was doing, made lots ...

In a recent Network World “High-speed LANs” newsletter, editor Jeff Caruso posed the question: “How relevant are jumbo frames today?” He noted that, although they were never officially sanctioned by ...

While Jumbo Frames technology remains in standards limbo, those who have used the technology for years continue to extol the virtues of stretching out the standard Ethernet frame size to boost Gigabit ...

Jumbo frames are intended to speed large data transfers. Ethernet specifies a certain frame size – 1,518 bytes – and that requires that large files be chopped up into chunks of that size, with all the ...

For the last couple of days I've been working behind the scenes with fellow blogger Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Ed Bott, and Microsoft to get to the bottom of the Vista gigabit throttling effect. This ...

The whole system is ethernet - no WiFi involved. I use ViceVersa Pro software to synchronize back-ups. All of these devices are less than 2 years old, all except the USB3 device support Gigabit ...