A ISA bus running at 33MHz will move 33 x 2 x 8 bytes per second = 528 bits per second which is more than enough to keep a 100Mhz card running - and even a gigbit card will get nowhere like 1000M bits per second anyhow.
You may mean the ISA bus will move 528 Mbits per second, which is enough for a 100Mbit card, although I've probably confused something now as well...
Practically speaking CSMA/CD has a maximum capacity of about 40% of quoted bandwidth. Beyond this the resends start to fill up the network. So a 100Mbit network carries 40Mb or 5MB / second. This, of course, does not apply to switched connections which are not limited by collisions - so should in theory be able to give 12.5MB / second in each direction - if your bus will handle it! ===== rgds, Richard Rothwell -------------------------------------------------------------------- GNU and Wine are rirds. Rird is recursively defined. ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/
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