[Thinkpad] GigE PC Cardbus adapter (Slightly OT)

[Alex Austin]

Do you really need more than 10 megabytes per second from this camera?
Gigabit Ethernet, alone, will use 80% of the bandwidth available on the PCI
bus (behind Cardbus/PC-Card), so it'll severely limit bandwidth to any other
components on the PCI bus in your system, such as the built-in ethernet, any
miniPCI cards you have, wireless, etc.

All the good gigabit ethernet chipsets are either built into the northbridge
on the chipset, or take either PCIe or PCI-X.

- Alex

On 10/11/06, Frank K-F <ferko at attglobal.net> wrote:
>
> My A31p has a 10/100m ethernet connection capability ... I need to
> connect to a camera with GigE, and am on the hunt for an appropriate
> PC-Card adapter.  I have been told that such adapters for GigE really
> fall short of the mark, except those with the Intel chip-set.
>
> Has anybody in this community experience in conjunction with their
> ThinkPads?  I'd like to hear from you.
>
> Frank K-F
> Brighton, MI USA
>
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