On Fri, 28 May 2004 22:20:15 +0900, Rodney Webster  ...
>
>In article <2hl00gFe6n31U1@uni-berlin.de>,
> "mr.sumo.snr" <llanelli14NOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I can't be 100% sure - but I switched out my Gigabyte motherboard for a new
>> AOpen AX4SPE Max II last weekend - it has a 1 gig lan port - and downloads
>> this week seem to have been faster.  I have no empirical data - and am too
>> lazy to conduct tests.
>
>Logically speaking, having a gigabit interface shouldn't make a 
>difference unless whatever your PC is connected to also has a gigbit 
>interface, and you are downloading data faster than 100Mbps - or 
>actually ~88Mbps because this is pretty much the maximum you can get 
>from a 100Mbps interface.

But not all 100M cards are made equal. Some of the drivers are really really
badly written, double handing data and not handingly interupts very well.
Jonathon may just have had a shitty card.



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