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I have just installed a new gigabit Cisco switch to upgrade network speed in my teaching labs and studios. The switch has some ports configured to allow for aggregating or trunking ethernet cards on my servers and some of my Mac Pro studio computers to provide faster transfer of large files and faster image deployment. (Also maybe play with Final Cut distributed rendering).<BR>
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I have aggregated, (bonded) the two network ports on a Mac Pro tower and done some rudimentary speed tests on this and another identical computer that is configured to only use one network port.<BR>
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My test basically was to copy the same 2 gig file across the network from our server on both computers simultaneously and time them – expecting the computer with the aggregated network ports to be twice as fast – not so IDENTICAL <BR>
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I also copied the files back from the two machines back to the Server – again expecting the computer with the aggregated network ports to be twice as fast – not so IDENTICAL<BR>
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So how would I test whether I am achieving faster network throughput, on the aggregated machine, is my test invalid or is something wrong with switch or computer setup ?<BR>
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Thanks<BR>
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Peter Thomas<BR>
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Information Technologies Facilities Manager<BR>
Conservatorium of Music<BR>
University of Sydney<BR>
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