James, All the broadband subscriptions I've had weigh in at under 3Mbps.
In fact, once you get to 1.5Mbps, the cost begins to escalate. Actually, unless you're pulling T-1 to your house, I don't think you're going to have a bottleneck at 10Mbps. That having been said, the only reason I would have for hanging onto a 10Mbps card is if it interfaced with ISA or VLB busses, cuz the 10/100 PCI cards out there are getting pretty cheap. Oh, I would hang onto it if it were a genuine 3Com or Novell or other heavyweight brand, but if it's Joe's Taiwan Networking, I would play Taps for it. Regards, ~ Garry Hamilton ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 4:45 PM Subject: [SURVPC] 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 > > 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
