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Re: lan card speed

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On 2012-04-24, wexfordpress <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> On Apr 23, 4:58 pm, Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqv...@deadspam.com>
> wrote:
>> wexfordpress <j...@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.

    You never know when you might have use for the extra speed. If he EVER has
any other network attached devices EVER, then he's likely to benefit from the
extra performance of GigE. Perhaps tomorrow if not today.

    As cheap as GigE is these days, there's really no point in not going that route.

>>
>> On the other hand, today it is almost hard to find NICs slower than 1 Gb/s.
>>
>> regards Henrik
>> --
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>
> My vendor is comcast/xfinity
>
> john c


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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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