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The right NIC - speed?
Choosing the right NIC for an IA-1

New MessageThe right NIC - speed? (modified 0 times) rlyacht
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I'm trying to decide what NIC to buy. I see from this board that the Netgear EA101CR, which I can get in buy.com for $17, will work. I'm wondering if I should go for a 100M product though, like the linksys USB 100TX. I will be using it as an X-terminal, or perhaps with VNC, to display stuff running on a linux box. Should I care about the faster network connection or not?
12-13-2001 13:48:16

New MessageRE:The right NIC - speed? (modified 0 times) bats
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AFAIK, the real limiting factor is the USB interface. I believe that the speed for the USB port is 12 megabit, so a 10 megabit ethernet interface is about all it can really handle. 100 megabit just allows you to connect to a 100 megabit only port but because of the USB bottleneck, there's really no significant increase in speed -- 20% rather than the 10 fold increase you might expect.

Although, I could be wrong considering USB 2.0. How does that affect the box?

12-13-2001 14:01:05

New MessageRE:The right NIC - speed? (modified 0 times) thinker
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AFAIK, these boxes don't support USB 2.0...
12-13-2001 15:04:08

New MessageRE:The right NIC - speed? (modified 0 times) ToeTag
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Howdy,

If you worried about VNC speed over a 10base-t connection you might want to try out http://www.tightvnc.com/ - they've got a more efficient version of the software. I haven't given it a try as of yet (still waiting for my IA-1) but the benchmarks look good.

- ToeTag

12-14-2001 08:54:07

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