On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 18:48 -0430, Carlos Marcano wrote:
> What I am still waiting for is a RaspberryPi with Gigabit Ethernet, that =
would make the killer solution for HTPCs,  IMO.

Frankly I don't see it. I doubt that the CPU in a Pi can handle the
TCP/IP stacking running at much more then 100Mbps. Remember, we're not
talking about a server chip here, this is a very low end smartphone type
chip, IO performance is NOT high on the list. Even if the MAC ran at
gigabit I doubt the internal (probably axi bus) could sustain anywhere
near gigabit speeds.

The boards do have USB2, if the onboard 100Mbps MAC isn't enough you
could always get a gigabit USB adapter. You'll hit the peak of USB2
bandwidth (probably around 300Mbps), but even that speed seems doubtful.

On top of that, would would you do with gigbit bandwidth? Where would it
go? The SD card can't sustain anywhere near gigabit speeds, the USB bus
is limited too? Maybe reading the memory? I could see perhaps a VNC
session theoretically benefiting, but even that... HTPC streaming
doesn't need anywhere need gigabit to function without issue.

TTYL

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