Thanks Ian, dunno much about these cable modems. Picked up one dirt cheap -- used computer store -- for $25.00, just had to buy a power supply - $14 at Radio Shack. Has been running for months. Was just wondering as I get sometimes download speeds equal to my old dialup. But then again, have downloaded iso's under Netscrape 6.1 @ 146.2 k/sec (?) - getting a 680M iso in about one hour. (Only between 0200-0800 EST).
Best Regards, Keith B. Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Hello All, >> >> This probably a dumb question, but here goes: >> >> Do all cable modems run @ 10Base-T or are there some that run @ 100baseTx >> FD? I have a home net of 10/100 NIC card PC's, but jsut noticed that my >> cable modem is only rated @ 10Base-T. Am I wasting the 100 mbps speed since >> my cable modem is only 10BaseT? My SuSE router PC has 2 NIC, one LNE100TX >> that uses the tulip driver and a rtl8139-based NIC. The LNE100TX is con- >> nected to the cable modem, will run @ 100 mbps, but goes to 10BaseT due to >> the modem. Then rtl8139 connects to the home lan via 10/100 N-WAY switch >> and happily churns along @ 100 mbps. > >If you have more than one machine in your network, and they communicate >at 100Mbps, then no, it's not a waste IMHO. But if you went looking for >100Mbps on purpose, hoping to get a 100Mbps connection through your >cable modem, you'll be disappointed. I've not heard of any cable >internet provider that runs at even 10Mbps (not saying there are none, >only none that I know of). Most of the time the best you can hope for >is a few (read 2 - 5) Mbps. > >I you really want a 100Mbps pipe, you're gonna hafta cough a lot more a >month than you do for cable internet. >-- >Linux SxS [http://hal.humberc.on.ca/~mrcn0031/sxs/] >_______________________________________________ >Linux-users mailing list >Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
