James, Supposedly you don't need faster than 10 to use DSL or Cable ... I'm using 10 on my DOS system, 10/100 on the w2k ... and am going to upgrade to 10/100 on DOS system.
With good 10/100 ethernet cards going for under $8, clear the shelf space off and toss those old cards. <G> l.d. ==== > Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 18:45:02 -0500 > From: James Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: 10baseT bottleneck? > I've got several 10BaseT ethernet cards laying around and am pondering > their worth (i.e., whether to keep them or throw them out). I may, at > some point in the future, want to get a DSL connection to the net and am > wondering whether using a card like this as an interface to the DSL modem > would create any kind of bottleneck. The searching I've done thus far > indicates there should be no bottleneck: my cards are capable, in > principle, of transferring data at a rate of 10Mbps (10 megabits per > second) while ADSL, as I get it, is capable of transferring data at a rate > of only 9Mbps at the fastest. Am I doing my math correctly? Shouldn't the > speed at which these NIC's can operate always exceed the capacity of the > ADSL line? > Thanks, James -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
