On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 08:03:08AM -0800, Unix Fan wrote: > You realize that a 10 Mbit card has a maximum theoretical transfer rate > of 1220 Kilobytes per second... such a speed the ISA bus can't even achieve. > > Even my home broadband line exceeds those speeds.... ;) > Setting workstations to 10Mbit mode is a bad method of bandwidth management.. It happens to work fine. If the students need more they are probably doing something the school shouldn't mind not working anyway (youtube, for example, consumes lots of bandwidth where I go to school). With today's Internet speeds 10m is also getting more and more useful to avoid congestion.
-- Jussi Peltola