USB -> ethernet adapters?

Mitch Petenaude mrp at sonic.net
Thu Jan 11 23:29:31 PST 2001


Problems:

USB bandwidth ~= 400Kb/s
Ethernet bandwitdth == 10-100 Mb/s, or 25-250 times as great.

USB is also poorly supported under linux.  (Yes, I know there are 
USB drivers in 2.4, but not much talks to them that I know of anyway.)

   -- Mitch

On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 08:40:58PM -0800, Bob Blick wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I have a system I would like to network, but it has no slots. It does have
> USB. Does anyone have experience with USB-to-ethernet adapters?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Bob Blick



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