Christianb

NICs communicate very slowly, they have to send things out in packets that get routed, and it's all designed to work well when there's a ton of computers on a network. And it does work well, even when there isn't a ton of computers. The problem with Nics on AND ONLY ON a single machine system is that NICs spend a large portion of their time figuring out which machine to send the packet to (MAC Addressing), what IP that system has (TCP/IP Protocol), what priority the data packet has (also TCP/IP). While with USB it just sends the freaking data already no who, where, and what priority. I guarantee you you'll get faster pings with USB, which for my purposes is what I'm looking for as it's to improve web browsing.

Okay I new I'd create a major argument over this one. As for the 40Mbps Watch a webcast. http://support.microsoft.com/default.asp...rb100801.asp. Okay now about the NICs usually giving 95% throughput. I want you to actually run a test on your network you'll never get higher than 60% because of the way NICS work. I have a NIC Lan. I have switches and cables and NICs. I know what a lan is, I know they're cheap, I know they work, but they still are slower than hell for two, count them, two PC's. Do you know what Segue Silk Performer is? It's a web performance analysis tool. I've done network, website, intranet, database, webserver, e-commerce server, and a trillion other network performance tests professionally. How many have you done?

First off there's two device speeds for USB 1.0/1.1 there's peripheral speed which is for mice and joysticks and then there's a high speed mode for video cameras and drives. The Slow is 12Mbits (lower case b - as in bits not Bytes) and the fast is 40 Mbits. Now 40Mbits is still less than 100Mbits so the next logical question is why does this guy think that 40 is faster than 100. Well it isn't but when network devices spend half their time figuring out just who in the hell they're talking to and what is their MAC Address (unique hardware identifier, every NIC has one built in it's a unique serial number and nobody else's is alike {aside from a bad batch I heard about one time in a foreign factory, where the dopes didn't know the MAC Addresses weren't supposed to match})and then what is their IP number. Whereas when you use a non networking device like a direct cable Parrallel or USB it just sends the damn data already, no who are you (MAC Address) and what your IP (TCP/IP Protocol). So yes I do think that parrallel and USB are faster for transfers between two systems. Once you widen the network of course a NIC, switches, and routers is the best solution, but I'm not trying to do that here am I.

Actually ethernet is extremely slow for interconnecting only two PCs. It is ideal for large networks and economy.

Hi I would like my workstation to be able to share network resources with other users before I've logged into the workstation directly. Ie if somebody turns on my system (and nobody has logged into it yet) I still want people to be able to access network shares maintained on that workstation assuming they have acess rights.

Okay fair enough, were you running Server or professional? I'm using Professional Sp2.

You might want to try up[censored] your ASUS bios and possibly calling Asus for further support on the issue. You could also contact the network adapter's technical support as well. Good Luck, Christian

I would if I could, but it won't let me so I won't .

I'm using Windows 2000 Professional SP2.