Does using USB instead of Ethernet hinder DSL/Cable broadband connections?

[Xenon14]

I'm getting a DSL 1.5mb/256k adsl connection.

 

[AFSOC_Commando]

From what I have read you can have about a max of 4mb/s thruput on the USB Nic... Should work just fine since you won't get anything near 4mb/s with the DSL... Of course that would change if you have other USB products utilizing some of the bandwidth..

 

[RCmayor]

I tried both, speed is about the same. I had system stability issues with USB cable though. Ever since I put a 10$ netgear card in the system has not had any problems.

 

[Kingofcomputer]

USB is 1.2Mbps, the basic DSL is 1.5Mbps,
so USB is ok for the basic DSL.

 

[dawks]

USB is 12Mbps. Unless the networking USB standard is lower.. Where did you find 1.2Mbps? Maybe 1.5megaBYTES/sec.

 

[Gunbuster]

Get Ethernet, you will be able to use a DSL router\hub if you need to share the connection

 

[Kingofcomputer]

my bad: should be 12Mbps.

 

[RossMAN]

Definitely get a NIC, Best Buy usually has the Netgear FA311 on sale for $5 or $10 after rebate.

 

[Xenon14]

I was curious, b/c my friend was using his Cable connection on a USB port and I thought that his connection could be hindered. I just popped in an Intel Ethernet card; now i have 2 spare kingstons lying around. Oh yeah, and I got an Intel 5 way splitter hub too! Broadband, here I come.

 

[SiLow]

From my experiences, USB and ethernet gets about the same d/ling speeds. But when I play CS, I usually ping around 20 lower on the ethernet connection.