I am thinking of using a USB 10/100 Ethernet Adapter, as opposed to a traditional 10/100 Ethernet card for home networking. If I did this, and assuming it is USB 2.0, then what kind of performance (throughput) could I expect – relative to a 10/100 Ethernet card? Thanks, Burke

Faster than you would need it in most cases. While I agree there may or may not be a bit of overhead on a usb most people never use even a 10bT speed. See the taskmanager network graph or setup a performance monitor to see your current nic speeds. Now if you had a server level card then you'd see a major speed improvement. They are designed to offload cpu resources and they cost more because of it. I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.

I don't think you would notice any difference in your internet access between the two. Are you ready for where Microsoft wants you to go today?

10/100 internet adapter (usb or pci) would have a max data rate of 100mbps usb has a max data rate of 480mbps according to http://www.pcguide.com/ref/mbsys/bu... pci has a max data rate of 130~mbps so the only read difference is that the usb would be easy to swap from computer to computer but would also take up space outside the computer and the internal might cost less, but you gotta pop upen your computer and install it (wich would take only a miniute or so if you know what you are doing)

I would expect a bit of overhead with USB just because its the nature of the beast. But 100mb is 100mb so you should see no difference Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.