Via Gizmodo:
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Belkin must be using some sort of voodoo to be able to crank out 1000Mbps from a USB 2.0 bus that taps out at 480Mbps, but that's what they claim the Gigabit USB 2.0 Network Adapter can do.
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http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/periphera...ter-189434.php
Interesting claim to make, wouldn't you say? Reminds me of a tech conversation I saw awhile ago:
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Tech: Must be a marketing ploy by dell putting those gig network cards in those computers.
Me: huh? Why?
Tech: I did some testing and I couldn’t get anywhere near a gig thru-put.
Me: How much did you get?
Tech: Around 250Mb.
Me: How much do our dells get with a 100Mb nic?
Tech: Around 85Mb.
Me: Don’t you understand that there is no standard nic speed between 100Mb and 1Gb? I could see if there was a 500Mb nic standard going with a gig might be marketing, but there isn’t. From 100Mb the next step up is 1Gb and you are still getting faster speeds.
Tech: Well they shouldn’t call it a gig if you can’t get close to that speed.
Me: Could it be the other hardware in the pc is the bottleneck, if we would get faster hard drives and controllers you might be able to up your transfer speed?
Tech: True, but I still think it is a marketing ploy.
Me: um, ok
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