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galbi66 t1_ivppwol wrote

Reply to comment by Jonyb222 in My 17 year old IBM Thinkpad T43 connecting to the internet at 800+Mbit/s by edwardianpug

It's not 17 years ago this photo was taken. His laptop is 17 years old.

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vMambaaa t1_ivpyeti wrote

he’s probably thinking of the bandwidth of the physical NIC on the laptop vs the bandwidth of the internet connection and he’d be right to wonder about that.

idk how it was for things like laptops, but it wouldn’t be that uncommon to see a 100mb bandwidth NIC on an enterprise switch, although 1gb was certainly common as well.

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LichK1ng t1_ivqoyfh wrote

How are you pretending to be tech inclined? You aren't getting the inclination that he is referring to the fact if you download at 1Gbps and your laptops HD only writes at 400Mbps then it's a waste to have a 1Gbps NIC? And where were you working that a 1Gb NIC was common in 2005?

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