On May 15, 2005, at 1:01 PM, Richard Prosser wrote:

> But anyway, there is no requirement (or capability?) to actually
> maintain a 10 or 100Mb/sec rate on an ethernet carrier.

Indeed.  I'm pretty sure that the original idea was that 10Mbps was 
PLENTY
for 'lots' of systems to share.  And so it was for a long time.  Some 
of the
early ethernet TCP systems I worked with managed about 60kbps, and I was
happy when I improved that tenfold to 600kbps...

Since most internet usage these days is web access, and there is likely 
to
be a slow (1Mbps or far less) bottleneck in there somewhere, you 
probably
won't even notice if your USB frob is limiting you to 1Mbps.  I have a 
couple
USB1.1 wireless links, and they work 'just fine.'

My how times have changed.

Still, I'd be surprised if there aren't differences from one USB Enet to
another, and/or comparative benchmarks out there somewhere.  And a USB
ethernet is not the thing to get if you're after maximum performance.

BillW
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