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Re: lan card speed

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wexfordpress <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> The new barebones system Iwill be building comes wih an integral lan
> port rated at 10 and 100 cps,
> some other boards run at 1000 cps.

I suppose you mean Mbps? (Mega bits per second)
 
> For ordinary web browsing, downloads etc is 100 adequate or must I use
> up a slot for a faster card?

Unless your internet provider has a service which gives you more than 100
Mb/s you have no use for a 1 Gb/s card while doing web browsing and
downloads from internet.

On the other hand, today it is almost hard to find NICs slower than 1 Gb/s.

regards Henrik
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lan card speed wexfordpress <john@wexfordpress.com> - 2012-04-23 12:35 -0700
  Re: lan card speed Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2012-04-23 22:58 +0200
    Re: lan card speed wexfordpress <john@wexfordpress.com> - 2012-04-23 18:41 -0700
      Re: lan card speed JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2012-04-24 09:32 -0500
  Re: lan card speed Bob Tennent <BobT@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-04-24 22:37 +0000

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