USB or ETHERNET

[Web-Junkie]

Steady on there cowboy

There is a stigma attached to SKODA granted, but that stigma was used to emphasise a point, not to degrade SKODA or SKODA owners. So how about I put it another way then: SMART CAR or SKODA

[hokkers999]

Originally Posted by Jim galbally

as jack points out, USB1.1 is SLOWER than 10mbit/sec so seems a bit silly to use it

Oh dear, didn't check first did we? USB 1.1 is 12 mbps, USB 2.0 is 480 mbps.

[JonathanLH]

wasn't their a usb speed at 4mbit?
i don't fully remember, but didn't it used to be:
usb = 4mbit
fast usb = 12mbit
usb2 = 480mb

[Graham M]

Well you will get much reduced speeds on USB a lot of the time as the 12MBit is shared across the hub

Transfer speed

USB supports three data rates.

• A Low Speed rate of 1.5 Mbit/s (183 KiB/s) that is mostly used for Human Interface Devices (HID) such as keyboards, mice and joysticks.

• A Full Speed rate of 12 Mbit/s (1.4 MiB/s). Full Speed was the fastest rate before the USB 2.0 specification and many devices fall back to Full Speed. Full Speed devices divide the USB bandwidth between them in a first-come first-served basis and it is not uncommon to run out of bandwidth with several isochronous devices. All USB Hubs support Full Speed.

• A Hi-Speed rate of 480 Mbit/s (57 MiB/s). (Commonly called USB 2.0)

(Taken frm www.wikipedia.com)

[Web-Junkie]

Also, don't forget about Gigabit Ethernet! 1000mbit transfer rate wee wees over any USB device

[JonathanLH]

this thread has gone way off topic

so therefore i shall see your gigabit, and raise you an oc-48 (2.5gbit)

[Web-Junkie]

You don't get oc-48 built into common motherboards.

Gigabit Ethernet is standard on some motherboards, but really a 10/100mbit Ethernet Card is quite sufficient to handle a 10mb broadband connection.

[JonathanLH]

yeah, for the sake of a £5 ethernet card, don't bother with usb, it's just not worth the hastle. especially on a machine with <1ghz and <128mb if you're wanting 10mbit

[Jim galbally]

hokkers, i know the BUS speed of USB

there's a very good reason why you can't get that over a single connection... havea think about it and you'll get it

[newbie]

I have a Belkin Wireless Router(802.11b I think) and a USB (1.1) Wireless Access Point in my PC.

Would the above make it pointless upgrading to NTL's 10meg BB, or would I be OK? If it's pointless, what (minimum) kit should I look to get? BTW my PC has a 10/100 Ethernet card.

Thanks.

[Stuart]

Depending on the router, you may be able to get the full speed through a wired connection to the PC. You will NOT be able to get the full 10 Meg through a wireless connection with any B class router.

Regarding routers, a lot of people (myself included) use and can recommend the Linksys WRT54G range of routers. These (AFAIK) should handle 10 Meg easily.

Originally Posted by Stuart C

Depending on the router, you may be able to get the full speed through a wired connection to the PC. You will NOT be able to get the full 10 Meg through a wireless connection with any B class router.

Regarding routers, a lot of people (myself included) use and can recommend the Linksys WRT54G range of routers. These (AFAIK) should handle 10 Meg easily.

One thing to be aware of is that the latest V5 WRT54G routers use a different operating system to earlier versions, this means that the use of 'third party' firmware is no longer possible.

- a WRT54GL model will apparently be available, based on Linux, which can use third party firmware, but will be more expensive.

- in the meantime the consensus seems to be that the 'new' V5 model of this router has less memory, a different OS & performance issues.

Advice seems to be hang out for the 'L' model, or try to get a version 4

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/70386