In article <c97hte023ad@drn.newsguy.com>,
 Brett Robson <jet_boy@deja.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 May 2004 22:20:15 +0900, Rodney Webster  ...
> >
> >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.

True.  But it would have to be really, really, really shitty to affect 
speeds of around "2 mb/s".  In the end the internet is going to be the 
major determining factor in speed, IMHO.  (Not that I have had much 
experience with shitty hardware - broken hardware, yes, more than 
enough, but not shitty hardware.)

-- 
Rodney Webster
http://knot.mine.nu/