Re: Can I use this card?

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"Ken B" <none@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Even if you were to go with the Advanced Commercial Gold and get up to
> 10Mbps down and 896 up, a 10/100 card running at 100 is still 10 times
> faster than they are transferring information to you on the down. Also,
the
> 896 is more like .896Mbps, so a 10/100 card is still more than 10 times
> faster than what you are transferring up to the isp.

Correct (sort of).

Be careful about direct speed comparisons with different
types of lines though.

The usuable throughput of an Ethernet is sometimes much
less than the speed of the line and normally the usuable
throughput of a serial line is roughly equal to the line
speed (i.e., a much greater percentage.)

So it may actually be useful to have a 100 Mbps card
(both sides, including router/cable modem etc) IF you
get to speeds higher than 3-5 Mbps on the WAN line.

With many clients on an Ethernet, you can only expect
about 35% of an Ethernet.

With lab* situations you MIGHT get up to 90%. Where
one server sends solely to one client, so there are few
if any collisions and waiting.

A pair of machines, e.g., one server/one cable-modem,
it somewhere between the two situations -- since either
side may be sending data without respect to the other
side. (Both can initiate / both can recieve.)


> A gigabit card would only serve you well on the inside of your network...
if
> you have other gigabit enabled computers (and switches). You would only
see
> a difference in transfer speeds of moving files around your network, but
for
> your network of 3 computers, I wouldn't bother.

Right.


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