Re: new HW/SW trend?

[Kim Flint <kflint@loopers-delight.com>]

At 12:56 PM 1/21/2003, Kevin Goldsmith wrote:
> >Me too. ethernet seems so obvious - its been around for a long time and 
>its
> >not going anywhere anytime soon, and bandwidth is not a problem at all. 
> I
> >wonder, is there a problem with variable (unpredictable) latency of 
>ethernet
> >used for with audio stuff?
> >Jon
> >
>Yeah, Latency is definitely an issue with ethernet, but with the new 
>higher ethernet speeds, I bet it wouldn't be as much an issue inside a 
>dedicated LAN (I wouldn't put your synth on the same hub as your DSL 
>however :) )

running the network faster will make the latency problem less obvious for 
the same quantity of data running over it. But it fundamentally doesn't 
fix 
the problem. As you increase the load on the network, the latency problem 
comes back. And we've probably all noticed how any available memory, 
bandwidth, cpu cycles, etc finds a way to get filled!

kim



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