USB is a slow interface compared to a 100 Mb NIC. I don't recall
the spec. off hand but USB is either 2 or 4 Mb/s.

Why do you have more than one NIC's in your machine ? If they
are 100 Meg units they are PCI cards and therefore can share an
interupt so no big deal keeping it around ?


> Hi,
>
> I am wondering if anyone has had any success with the subject matter.  I am
> considering purchasing an adapter to remove one of my internal NIC's and am
> wondering if one can actually achieve the claimed 100Mbit speeds.  I can't
> seem to find a reference on the Internet that will tell me what the REAL
> maximum speed of a USB port is.


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