[wellylug] Multiple USB ethernet adapters

Donald Gordon don at dis.org.nz
Sun Oct 10 10:13:45 NZDT 2004


On 9/10/2004, at 10:43 PM, Nigel Roberts wrote:

> Remember that you'll be sharing the bandwidth between the two, which
> is only 11Mbps half duplex.
>
> So, I'd have the cable modem connected by USB (which tops out at about
> 5Mbps, so don't do this if you have the 10Mbs plan) and the the
> wireless and wired networks connected via PCMCIA.

It can be worse; the laptop I'm using as a temporary access point seems 
to only be able to pass ~1Mbps (bridged) between an old 3com PCMCIA NIC 
(not CardBus) and a Prism2 wireless card with the HostAP drivers.

donald




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