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| ||bass Posts: 567/594 |
I have 802.11n wireless networking hardware and it's usually at least twice as fast as 'standard' 100baseT ethernet. |
| FreeDOS + Posts: 1142/1312 |
Most of them aren't even able to handle 100Mbps itself anyway, it's usually somewhere around 20 to 60Mbps that's actually done with cheap (~$150 or less) routers. |
| BMF54123 Posts: 786/876 |
It'd be nice if there were more products that supported Gigabit...there's really no point in having it when the majority of (affordable) routers only support 10/100.  |
| Metal Man88 Posts: 562/701 |
Gigabit stuff is everywhere, or, at least, built-in to my computer, making it the obvious choice. Give it a few years and USB will be no match for Ethernet--it just can't move as fast, unless they try to have a standards war with Ethernet. |
| BMF54123 Posts: 762/876 |
Unless you have a Gigabit-enabled router (doubt it) and plan on doing lots of huge file transfers over your network, stick with Ethernet. Otherwise, you're just needlessly sacrificing CPU cycles and stability with USB overhead. |
| HyperHacker Posts: 4370/5072 |
It's possible now but not accessible to the public. A lot of old Internet backbones need a bit of upgrading for this too.
Also, I found using USB to connect my cable modem was very unreliable and slow. Ethernet is simply a much better way to do the job. |
| Sonicandfails Posts: 793/917 |
FreeDOS hit the nail on the head. I was going to say, it has just been the standard for a long time now...But to add to it, USB 2.0 is not faster then 10000 mbps NICs/routers. That's why their are still ethernet cables and such packed in. My teacher added a few months ago that it is expected that in about 4 years we are supposed to have even faster Routers that are supposed to be able to go around 1,000,000 mbps or something that high. He also added that ISPs will be going to about 8 times the speed now, and will be able to stream whole movies at a high resolution...Weird to think about that, eh?  |
| FreeDOS + Posts: 1115/1312 |
Because ethernet has been a standard for much, much longer than USB has. Not to mention it was designed for networking. With USB-networking, most of the work has to be done by operating system drivers, causing quite a bit of overhead (to the point it might seem slower than 100Mbps ethernet, with poorly-enough drivers). |
| Uncle Elmo Posts: 299/308 |
USB 2.0 it is then, it's a 10/100 card.
Thanks for the help, of course this does beg the question, as all computers have Usb ports, why bother putting an ethernet cable in there? |
| FreeDOS + Posts: 1114/1312 |
10 Gbps ethernet cards exist, though they're expensive. Not to mention you probably don't have the money to even buy disks that can go so fast, or the routers. Other than that side-note, Sonicandfails got it right. |
| Sonicandfails Posts: 792/917 |
I am in a Cisco Networking class, and I know that Ethernet is the faster, depending on the NIC. If the NIC is a 1000 mbps, then use that. Otherwise, use the 2.0, as if the NIC is 10/100 mbps, then the USB 2.0 is much faster (around 480 mbps). WiFi is never faster. Ever.
EDIT: Unless it's a 802.11n, then I'm not so sure, as I haven't learned/played around with those routers yet... |
| Uncle Elmo Posts: 298/308 |
My parents have just bought a new computer which, instead of having USB 1.0 ports, has a variety of interesting holes to plug things into, now I intend to reninstall their wireless router on this new computer but I'm wondering which connection will provide the fastest data transfer. Should I use the ethernet cable, the Usb 2.0 cable or buy a wireless adapter and do it that way?
As a sidenote, the com-p has 2 firewire sockets but the router isn;t compatible with firewire, I've heard that's the fastest. |
