Subject: Re: Supported CardBus 10/100 NICs?
To: Laine Stump <lainestump@rcn.com>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 10/31/1999 14:11:01
>A (totally unqualified) word of warning about 16bit PCMCIA 100Mbit ethernet
>cards:
>
>I don't have experience with the particular cards you list, but under
>totally different circumstances, I had the following experience, which,
>when extrapolated, leads me to believe that 16bit PCMCIA 10/100 ethernets
>will never get you anywhere *near* 100Mbits of throughput.
Yep. We have already ave several of the Linksys cards the lab and in
offices, is all. Fry's only had PCMCIA 10/100+modem, no Cardbus.
Some days you cant win.