Re: Intel PRO/100 CardBus II
Scott Mitchell <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 01:25:01PM +0100, Markie wrote: > > The cards I am looking at are also 32 bit (the dongle ones). I was just > wondering if I will get any kind of major performance loss using 16 bit > cards. I can only find a Realport1? card (just says realport) and they're > 16 bit... and so is this FA410 card if I was to get a dongle for it > instead. Performance of 100Mbps Ethernet with 16-bit cards pretty much sucks. They'll attach to a 100Mbps network just fine, but the amount of data you'll be able to put through them will be much, much less, and probably consume a lot of CPU cycles with it. If you're not doing anything network-intensive, or only connecting to 10Mbps networks, this might not matter to you. However, if your laptop has CardBus slots and you're running FreeBSD 5 (no CardBus support in 4.x), you'll probably be a lot happier with a 32-bit card. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"