pcmcia wifi card for FC2/FC3

[Scot L. Harris]

Message re-ordered due to top posting.

On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 21:14, Tom Coburn wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 01:08:19 -0500, Marvin Dickens <mpdickens at tlanta.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 20:05 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> > > buying kit from those who help such as Intersil and Atheros.
> > 
> > Why on earth would you suggest to someone that they purchase a wifi
> > adapter that tx's/rx's at 10mbits in order to further a political
> > statement when for the same money they can have 54mbit tx/rx? Thats like
> > saying I think I'll purchase a Yugo for my next automobile because they
> > were made by the people for the people.
> > 
> > You take the Yugo, I'll drive the BMW.
> > 
> well first off,
> 
> what difference does it make rather your wifi card is 10 mbit
> or 54 mbit,  or even 100mbit
> won't make any difference when your connected to the internet because
> your internet connection is only 500,  1.0,  1.5,  3.0 mbit/s anyway,
> so what difference does it make rather your at 54 or 10?
> 
> it doesn't..  unless you happen to use SAMBA  ALOT,  its going to make
> NO difference..  I don't know why people have to have the best of
> everything all the time,  thats just 'greedy'  man :)

Actually having a higher speed wifi card does make a difference for file
transfers being done on your local LAN.  Also, if you start with a
higher speed connection (45Mb) when you move away from the AP or have
several walls between you and the AP and your through put drops you may
still have 10Mb available instead of some fraction of 10Mb.

Of course if you only have one machine on your LAN you are correct.  The
limiting factor will be your Internet connection.

A while back I introduced a 10Mb hub into my LAN.  I noticed a
significant difference when I was moving some iso files from one system
to another compared to having a 100Mb switch in place.

-- 
Scot L. Harris
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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
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