You can't saturate a 100BaseT connection with a cable modem (at least at the speeds Charter offers). You wouldn't see any benefit for internet surfing. Mel "The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flagstick on top." ~ Pete Dye On Jul 12, 2004, at 7:30 PM, Jerry Bunn wrote: > I'm looking into purchasing one of the new G5's and was wondering if > anyone knows if adding the PCI-X Gigabit Ethernet Card ($100 option) > with a cable modem hook-up would make any appreciable internet surfing > difference.