James et al: Suggest you take a look at the article at <http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030626.html> for a lot of information about what through-put speeds DSL and cable modem system really operate at.
John Oram 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 > > 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 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
