On 2 Jun 2003 at 18:45, James Miller wrote:
>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
ADSL's max is closer to 8Mbps, as I understand it. In any case, I'd
guess that it's likely that the practical maxiumum speed you get will
be limited by the size of the outgoing pipe on the ADSL provider's end,
more than the maximum speed of ADSL.
So, I'd say that you should be fine with 10BaseT cards. No need to
purchase new when the SurvPC will do! :-)
Anthony J. Albert
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