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Re: Only 8Mb/s with a 10/100 card



On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 07:39:38AM -0700, Jared Valentine wrote:
> This is not a problem with DLINK cards.  This is true of ANY
manufacturer's 16-bit PCMCIA card (Xircom, 3Com, Intel, etc.)  Since there
is no such thing as a "15mbps hub", or a "20mbps hub", it wouldn't make
sense to call it a 20mbps PC Card.  These kind of cards do connect to
100mbps networks, although they don't fully realize the entire bandwidth.    
> 
> If you want the full throughput, you need a Cardbus PC Card instead.
> 

Actually, I once read somewhere that even the 32bit Cardbus cards are
limited to 80 Mb/s.  

Drew

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