On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 13:57 +0200, Robert Schlabbach wrote: > If a _server_ can't handle the network traffic, then a little network > device sure can't either... I fail to see any logic behind this statement. "Little network devices" like the 100$ gigabit switches have a much higher switching bandwidth than a highend _server_ PC. Custom-designed devices do have an advantage over general purpose devices in their designed application... > I have 3 tuner cards in my desktop PC with no thermal problems... Yeah I too have 3 cards in a PC, two "budget" and one "full featured". But I wouldn't call that rock solid, the ARM crashes every couple of hours, the TI DSP is completely intolerant to received bit errors, and the price for "no thermal problems" is a noise level that's only slightly lower than the FA18 fighter planes in T/O power setting on the nearby airforce base. Tom
