Subj : 10 net
To   : Roy J. Tellason
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Wed Sep 14 2005 08:53 pm

Hey Roy!

Sep 14 04:58 05, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 MK>> I prefer the 3c509's since the ne2000's use extra cpu cycles to run
 MK>> them.  They work good but the 3c509's are a noticable improvement
 MK>> (transfer speeds etc.). 

 RJT> I guess that makes it pretty silly for me to have one of those in my 
 RJT> firewall/router box,  then...

Not really but if more then one, which is often the case in routers, then the 
issue will take on greater significance especially on slow cpu's, and then 
reducing the load on the cpu will have even greater impact overall.  With high 
speed internet you problably won't see the difference but on a LAN it is quite 
noticable.  I find for routers the Intel Pro's work great but then we're 
talking pci.  I have two of them on a 486-33 that works great but at 100Mb it 
is slower then a speedier cpu.  I tried the same sort of setup on a 233MHz MMX 
jobber and it handled everything quite well.  Streaming mp3's on a 10Mb network 
was a tad slow but it works.  I haven't tried that with the 486-33 yet but I am 
sure that it'll be fast enough for that on a 100Mb connection despite it not 
being quite up to fullbore on that network. 

Life is good,
Maurice

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