[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello All, > > This probably a dumb question, but here goes: > > Do all cable modems run @ 10Base-T or are there some that run @ 100baseTx > FD? I have a home net of 10/100 NIC card PC's, but jsut noticed that my > cable modem is only rated @ 10Base-T. Am I wasting the 100 mbps speed since > my cable modem is only 10BaseT? My SuSE router PC has 2 NIC, one LNE100TX > that uses the tulip driver and a rtl8139-based NIC. The LNE100TX is con- > nected to the cable modem, will run @ 100 mbps, but goes to 10BaseT due to > the modem. Then rtl8139 connects to the home lan via 10/100 N-WAY switch > and happily churns along @ 100 mbps.
If you have more than one machine in your network, and they communicate at 100Mbps, then no, it's not a waste IMHO. But if you went looking for 100Mbps on purpose, hoping to get a 100Mbps connection through your cable modem, you'll be disappointed. I've not heard of any cable internet provider that runs at even 10Mbps (not saying there are none, only none that I know of). Most of the time the best you can hope for is a few (read 2 - 5) Mbps. I you really want a 100Mbps pipe, you're gonna hafta cough a lot more a month than you do for cable internet. -- Linux SxS [http://hal.humberc.on.ca/~mrcn0031/sxs/] _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
