Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 18:18:24 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org> To: Markie <mark.cullen@dsl.pipex.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel PRO/100 CardBus II Message-ID: <20040501171824.GA474@tuatara.fishballoon.org> In-Reply-To: <005d01c42eae$29a51b50$f700000a@ape> References: <CD1C1AC62C4DA944914E36E7B3DD904313DB2A@sestosrv004p.ad.octapharma.se> <005d01c42eae$29a51b50$f700000a@ape>
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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
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