Dual Ethernet Link Aggregation For Compressor 3 Help Wanted

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I want to do Link Aggregation with a pair of dual ethernet Mac Pros and a couple of dual ethernet G5 PMs - a 2GHz dual core and a 2.5GHz Quad G5. Can anyone assist me in setting this up please? I have the Netgear GSM7212 but can't get phone support from Netgear because I bought it refurbished. Thanks.

I think I've figured out how to create aggregations. But not sure if the benefit will result yet.

[trainguy77]

well what you should do is Set it up first just with 1000 base/t I think that should be plenty. In almost all cases you don't even use a full 1000 base/t line, as the hard drives are your limitation. So set it up with 1000 base/t then you can take a look at activity monitor and see if your getting close to maxing out a connection.

[Multimedia]

well what you should do is Set it up first just with 1000 base/t I think that should be plenty. In almost all cases you don't even use a full 1000 base/t line, as the hard drives are your limitation. So set it up with 1000 base/t then you can take a look at activity monitor and see if your getting close to maxing out a connection.You don't understand. The dual ethernet setup across an aggregated local network doubles the speed of the rendering or compressing multiple parts of a video render or compression job.

[trainguy77]

You don't understand. The dual ethernet setup across an aggregated local network doubles the speed of the rendering or compressing multiple parts of a video render or compression job.

I understand what link aggregation does. However, i still don't think it will use all the bandwidth of a 1000 base/t connection as it will be limited by your slowest part, which i would think would be the bus of the systems/cpu/HD(if used for rendering) I have not used the software you speak of so i can't comment for sure. But i am just saying try it single connection(which is VERY fast if its 1000base/t) I have use 1000 base/t on servers at work we never max out the connection at most we use 30%.

So just check it shouldn't take long to see if it uses %100 of the single connection or not. I may very possible be wrong it may need more then a single connection. But I doubt it. 1000 Mbit/s is alot of data...of coarse thats theoretical its actually slower then that.