[geeks] PCMCIA Gigabit NIC

[Dan Williams]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin" <kevin at pipeline.com>
To: "The Geeks List" <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 1:46 AM
Subject: Re: [geeks] PCMCIA Gigabit NIC


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> True, and both the primary fileserver and laptop are
> firewire equipped but i don't think i can get a fire
> wire cable to go from upstairs to down stairs (what's
> the max 1394 distance?). And besides i do occasionally
> need to transfer files from other, non firewire,
> machines. I'd have to swap PCMCIA cards since the 1394
> card and Zircom nic both take up two slots.
>
> If i don't find anything i'll just stick with 100mb on
> the laptop.
>
> Thanks,
> /KRM
>
> On Mon, 30 Dec 2002
> 16:03:22-0700"Chris Byrne"<chris at chrisbyrne.com> wrote:
>
> > What about firewire based file transfer? 400Mbps aint
> > half bad, and realworld throughput (from a laptop
> > anyway) is prolly the same as you'll get with GigE
> > plus they are easily available and not very
> > expensive.
> >
> > Chris Byrne
> >
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> > From: geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org
> > [mailto:geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org] On Behalf Of Kevin
> >
> > i do a lot of transferring large file back and forth
> > to and from the laptop.  I'm not hoping to reach any
> > where near gigabit speeds but anything faster than
> > 100baseT would be nice.
> >
> > /KRM
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I bought a firewire pcmcia card for #30 a couple of weeks ago, the usb
version isn't that much more

Dan