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Re: PCMCIA cards CPU load comparison/Speed etc. WIch one is better ??
« on: December 03, 2003, 10:55:11 PM »
On A1200/A600 PCMCIA port is behind chip ram bus: Slow, slow, slow.
 
NIC itself doesnt matter much since without 060 you can't get full
speed at all.
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Re: PCMCIA cards CPU load comparison/Speed etc. WIch one is better ??
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2003, 12:18:50 AM »
CPU usage quite depends on your download/upload speed. It is not only
ethernet interface taking its cpu time but also TCP/IP stack and the
client.

NIC itself is just a minor issue. There is no DMA. CPU must copy data
from PCMCIA card to fast ram for further processing (it is done in
blocks, maybe in 16kB or 32kB blocks depending on a card).

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