Re: adding NIC to Qube2- performance better?

["Alex Pelts" <alexp%broadcom.com@localhost>]

Tulip in the cube is a good enough chip. I don't think processor can
saturate 100MB connection not even talking about a gigabit. IMHO the
existing ethernet is underutilized as it is. On clear transfers I am
barely getting 2MBytes/sec speed and on encrypted less than half of
that. I can get faster speed between my pc and my laptop over 802.11B
wireless.

Regards,
Alex


Mike Hebel wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2008, at 5:21 PM 12/3/08, Brian McEwen wrote:
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>> Hi all;
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>> Would you expect that I could see better network performance from  
>> my Qube2 if I put a NIC in my lonely expansion slot?
>> If so, which chipset?
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>> I have a USB card in there now, but I never use it.
>>
>> I though I would be making use of the wonderful new install CDs, at  
>> least the latest 4.0, over the holidays-- but I had too many  
>> distractions.
>>
>> Thanks for thoughts-
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> That's a very good question - would a gigbit card work well?  I would  
> think that the CPU and pci bus would be the bottleneck in this case  
> but I honestly don't know.
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> Mike Hebel
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