looking for feedback about fastest cable modem !

[Billvill]

Like the subject says anyone have any thoughts about what cable modem gives the best performance ? Seems the high end units no longer require an lan card and use the USB port.

Please leave me your experiences.

Thanks Billy

 

[Gregory_WE]

You'll want it to go through ethernet anyways - it's faster than USB.

 

[AmigoThree]

My Cable modem is a 3com HomeConnect but it is 2 years old and I dont think theymake them anymore. I never noticed a difference between USB and ethernet. Do you have any info to back that up Gregory?

 

[Gregory_WE]

Can't say from personal experience, but I've heard numerous times that the USB is slower.

 

[Gregory_WE]

Can't say from personal experience, but I've heard numerous times that the USB is slower.

 

[cursor]

Doesn't USB require a ton of CPU overhead? Might not be faster or slower per se, but would slow down the rest of the system significantly.

 

[camfortner]

Well, USB is beneficial for just about 2 reasons.
A.) if you want to share internet access between 2 computers and only have 1 network card in each system
B.) If you dont' have a network card, or are changing the modem between a laptop and desktop.

I never tried using USB on my desktop, because i have an ethernet hub that my 3 computer LAN plugs into, it doesn't make sense to use USB in this case.

 

[zmzhang]

I don't think the brand of the cable modem matters. The speed depends on the cap your isp places on your line.

 

[Krusty]

I can GUARANTEE that ethernet is faster than USB. I can not, however, claim that you will actually see any difference. USB has a maximum data transfer rate of either 11 or 13 Megabits per second. Can't quite remember. Ethernet has a transfer rate of 100 Megabits per second, which is obviously faster.

I would think a usb cable modem would be easier to use though. Just plug it in and get it running, but you can't hook it to a router for a shared connection like an ethernet cable modem.

 

[Spec_Ops2087]

Ethernet is ONLY faster when you have somthing like T2...that is when you will see a speed increase from going from USB to ethernet...otherwise no cable service lets us get 9Mbp/s...another example I can think of is if you are plugged into a LAN....you can see a difference between 100Mbp/s and 9Mbp/s but you can't even get into a LAN with USB anyway




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