James, John, For the old-timers in our midst, there was Arcnet, which ran at about 2Mbps (haven't seen an Arcnet card in years) but it was still fast enough that it wouldn't have bottle-necked the normal broadband data rate.
Any of the Ethernet cards is going to be faster. Of course if you're building a home network that shares broadband, then the machine that connects to the broadband will have the job of "talk fast inside, talk slow outside" which is its own kind of bottleneck. >From experience I can tell you that it's no fun having the best computer in the house burdened with sharing your only printer and your broadband at the same time. For those who long to re-live what it's like to try to work on a 286, I can recommend this configuration. We use an inexpensive router to do this now. Only way to fly. Regards, ~ Garry Hamilton ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Tomany" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 2:05 AM Subject: Re: [SURVPC] 10baseT bottleneck? > James Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Shouldn't the speed at which these NIC's can operate always exceed > > the capacity of the ADSL line? > > Technically, transferring from/to RAM, yes. But how fast can > your HD put it away/retrieve it? How much time overhead is > involved in crunching that stuff into/out of IP packets? > > Of course, there isn't a DSL line in the world that actually > transfers anything at 9 Mbps, either, except in a lab. > > A 1 or 2 MB actual transfer rate is fine. > 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
