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A pokey Atom computer will get bogged down with any large amount of traffic. Nic's tend to use a lot of cpu working on checksums. Only higher end cards tend to let you offload that to the nic. Never heard of a usb doing it. But most cheap cards do not either. So if you are trying to use this as a high speed router or firewall you may see some or a lot of slowness on some processes. Remember that there is always a lot of other overhead to any connection both traffic and other resources needed.
Would I guess this to work. Well, yes if the driver is pretty good and your normal other cpu use is low. It would be much better than a second IP on the single nic.
I think that 10MBdown/2MBup isn't that much traffic for the Atom. Usb 2.0 supports 60MB of bandwith, but what about the overhead of USB->TCP?
My concerns are latency and CPU time used to work on the USB->TCP. The latter I think that the Atom and Zacate will do the work with no problem. But how would the latency be noticed in the real world scenario, like browsing?
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