Shane Nicholas wrote in a message to Brandon Burchfield:
 SN>  On 05-10-97 Brandon Burchfield wrote to David Bowerman... 
  
 DB> Interesting.  I haven't heard of any cable modems that supported 
 DB> an Ethernet connection over 10Mbit/s (nor any that supported data 
 SN>   SMC makes a 10/100 Mbit Enet card.  Now if you can just plug a
 SN> decoder  between it and cable you should get 100 Mbit....  but I
 SN> cannot be sure if  that card will work with the setup your
 SN> trying... I admittedly do not know  much about "cable modems" and
 SN> how they are setup. 
The cable modem looks like a network interface card to your system.  Plugging 
a 100MB NIC into my system won't do any good to me since the cable modems 
being tested around here are equivalent to a 10MB NIC.  Since writing the 
above, I have learned that there are other cable modems which have a NIC 
interface capable of speeds over 10MB though none of the web pages I hit 
claimed that their cable modems are capable of a sustained rate even close to 
10MB.
Regards,
       David
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