From: Andrew Webber (awebber_at_wwwebbers.com)
Date: Fri Dec 20 2002 - 00:00:01 EST
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 10:44:29 -0500, STeve Andre' wrote:
>A non-Cardbus card can only shovel 16.6Mbit/s due to
>the 8.33MHz speed at which it runs, passing 16bit data.
>This is why I've always thought that a card rated at
>100Mbit/s on a 16bit bus is just a little short of
>marketing fraud--it will 'talk' at that speed, but
>can't possibly sustain what you'd think of, looking at
>the specs.
So when their site says this:
Network Data Transfer Rate
Ethernet: 10Mbps (Half-duplex)
Ethernet: 20 Mbps (Full-duplex)
Fast Ethernet: 100Mbps (Half-duplex)
Fast Ethernet: 200Mbps (Full-duplex)
they're really saying the data will get from the card to the
network at 100Mbps but it will get from from the computer to the
card at only 17Mbps?
>Still, they are usually faster than 10Mbit cards.
Would a 10Mbit card even talk to a 100Mbit network? It's been so
long since I had to deal with that, that I forget (or was it
something in the hub that took care of it?)
andrew [awebber_at_wwwebbers.com]
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