On Tue, 22 May 2001, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> From experience I found that the 16 bit cards do not sustain anything
> close to 100Mbps. I benchmarked a 16 bit Lynksys 10/100 card at about
> 10Mbps. I returned it and got a Netgear cardbus card which benchmarks
> close to 90Mbps. If you want the performance, get a 32 bit card.
Problem is, at least one of the laptops in question, an older model, only
supports the older 16-bit PCMCIA standard, not the 32-bit CardBus standard.
The reason I want a dual-speed card is so I can use it on both 10 and 100
megabit single-speed networks. In other words, I'm after interoperability,
not performance.
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Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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