> Interesting. Though I'm kinda curious why one would bother these days with Wifi an all.....
Throughput on those sorts of cards is pretty killer. If he wired it up correctly and got the balancing right he could probably hit 3-4 gigabytes per second. It would take you about 2-3 seconds to copy a DVD across a network. I have a rack at work of this sort of stuff that I mess with daily. It is pretty fun to play with. It really changes the way you look at software when the network is not the bottleneck.
The best I have got out of my wifi is 45 meg a second and that is if I hold everything 'just right'. I typically get 30 MB a second. The router wired interface itself can peak at about 100 meg a second (being a 1 gigabit interface).