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Internal vs external ADSL modems

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Abednigo

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Quirky question. Will an internal (pci) adsl modem give you better throughput than an external? They just installed our system here as an external going into the puter through a 10/100 NIC dedicated to the modem. It would appear that we're not going to get any better than 80-90 kB/s throughput that way. Would it go faster internal?
 
I would go with the internernal if you have alot of things going through your USB port the DSL modem tends to slow things down but thats just the way things worked out for me. 🙂
 
external for me also... then you dont have to leave your pc on that has the dsl modem in it if you get a dsl/cable router to share your connection
 
Don't know what Nutcase is talking about. But I would defintely prefer and external modem not because of speed, but flexibility. I have both a Cisco675 and an Intel internal Modem and I don't see any speed difference.
 
80-90 KB is about the speed for a line that runs around, say, 640. You aren't by any chance on Qwest, are you? If so, and you have that little black Cisco, be damn happy. You can put a hub in between you and it and then plug as many pc's as you want in.

Look at the speed this way: You have an external, dedicated, optimised processor doing your decoding issues. If you put it in your pc, you would probably have a little overhead from the pc, probably about the same that the NAT on the external is taking.

Besides, there is no way that you are gonna max out your net card with any kind of DSL.

 
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