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Old 06-01-2004   #2 (permalink)
Thorn
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Originally Posted by Dreadnaught
I have a firewire PCMCIA card which I use in a 2 year old laptop. AFAIK, the best throughput I have been able to get is 50Mbs. Which raises the question, can the extreme g cards actually do the 108 Mb/s they advertise? I realize the extreme g is a cardbus, but aren't there other limiting factors.
That IS the 108 they advertise. This stuff is half-duplex. Therefore it only transmits one half the time; therefore speeds are half of what is advertised, minus some overhead.

With real vs. advertised speeds you see something like this:
Ad Actual
1 0.5
2 1
11 5
22 10
54 22
108 50
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