Re: Good PCMCIA ethernet card

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From: Vincent Poy (vince_at_victor.MCESTATE.COM)
Date: Sun Oct 03 1999 - 14:08:22 EDT

On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, James Lai wrote:

> How much faster is Cardbus comparing with 16 bit cards in reality? Anyway
> numbers or findings??

        Well, think of it like PCI (CardBUS) 32bit versus ISA (16bit
PCMCIA). 16Bit is cable of doing I think 12Mbps max so even if you had a
100Mbps card, you can only get 12Mbps out of it. The CardBUS 100Mbps card
will do full speed since 32bit can handle up to 133Mbps. The only thing
is that modems can run on PCMCIA just fine but FastEthernet is another
story.

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