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usb or ethernet
Name: slugger Date: September 2, 2005 at 14:31:40 Pacific OS: xp home CPU/Ram: 2.0 512dual channel
Comment:
could someone tell me which is the fastest connection ethernet or usb2 i have my broardband connection on usb2 would it be faster on a ethernet card
Name: d85kennedy Date: September 2, 2005 at 14:37:22 Pacific
Reply:
in my experience connecting my PC's to the broadband modem by Ethernet is much better. kill 2 birds with 1 stone and get a ethernet modem/router for internet sharing and future expansion.
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Response Number 2
Name: jefro Date: September 2, 2005 at 15:54:27 Pacific
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Without a test you couldn't know or guess. My opinion is both are usually faster than the content that can be supplied. There are some tests that could show slowup's in the ethernet and are more common. Use perfmon. The USB is harder to test. Some NIC cards perform much better than others even though they are the same speed rated. Some offload computation to the card instead of the cpu using resources.
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Response Number 3
Name: ham30 Date: September 2, 2005 at 19:06:53 Pacific
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Jefro is correct. They are both faster than your broadband connection.
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Response Number 4
Name: techtony Date: September 3, 2005 at 09:32:06 Pacific
Reply:
USB is hardware and ethernet is software. You probably mean RJ-45 NIC. Sorry for being fussy.
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Response Number 5
Name: XpUser Date: September 3, 2005 at 10:49:19 Pacific
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