When I tested the G4 450 with a gigabit card I found no improvement in transferring large quantities of files over 100 Mb. That may have been a limitation due to other factors on my network. YMMV Jens Jens Selvig ...lost in Montana... lstnmt at bresnan.net On Feb 27, 2007, at 10:45 AM, Philip J Robar wrote: > On Feb 27, 2007, at 9:10 AM, Jens Selvig wrote: > >> If you are planning on going to gigabit ethernet you might want to >> get a faster computer to be your server. I have a G4 450 that >> really can't utilize gigabit speeds ... > > Using PCI for a gigabit controller will limit it's throughput on > any machine- no matter how fast it is, but it will still be faster > than 100 Mb.