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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

#1191 — lan card speed

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.

For ordinary web browsing, downloads etc is 100 adequate or must I use
up a slot for a faster card?

I don't do games.

John Culleton

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#1192

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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#1193

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.
>
> On the other hand, today it is almost hard to find NICs slower than 1 Gb/s.
>
> regards Henrik
> --
> The address in the header is only to prevent spam. My real address is:
> hc351(at)poolhem.se Examples of addresses which go to spammers:
> root@localhost postmaster@localhost

My vendor is comcast/xfinity

john c

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#1194

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
>> --
>> The address in the header is only to prevent spam. My real address is:
>> hc351(at)poolhem.se Examples of addresses which go to spammers:
>> root@localhost postmaster@localhost
>
> My vendor is comcast/xfinity
>
> john c


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#1195

On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:35:13 -0700 (PDT), wexfordpress wrote:

 > The new barebones system I will be building comes wih an integral lan
 > port rated at 10 and 100 cps, some other boards run at 1000 cps.
 >
 > For ordinary web browsing, downloads etc is 100 adequate

Yes.

 > or must I use up a slot for a faster card?

Only if you need faster transfers on an internal LAN, say, to a
storage server or to stream video to another system.

Bob T.

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