I have Roadrunner broadband going to a Netgear router and then connecting to my pc via a 10/100 SIS 900 LAN card. Is this PC card a bottleneck if I can get 500mbs from the cable? Should I get a 1gig LAN card?
2006-08-13 18:31:25 · 5 answers · asked by soulblazer28 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
In a word no.
Your router was a 100 MB limit as well as your card, and the internet backbone also runs at 100 MB, even on fiber, so nothing is to be gained by changing hardware.
Ther are cards made to run faster, but these are made for special uses such as internal networks in number crunching labs at this time.
2006-08-13 18:51:11 · answer #1 · answered by Spark 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Generally speaking a 10/100 NIC is more than enough when considering the internet, the cable between the NIC and your router may have the ability to go faster, but your internet download speed is generally much slower than your NIC, even with broadband, therefore the cables speed dosen't matter and your NIC is not a bottleneck.
2006-08-14 01:49:55 · answer #2 · answered by plainwolf 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like an error here. Which cable ISP would provide 500mbs to your home/office? Where can you get a cable modem which supports 500mbs?
A 10/100 NIC definitly will not become a bottleneck in your internet access.
2006-08-14 01:58:30 · answer #3 · answered by Seaman 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A 10/100 nic card should not be a bottleneck. I use a 10/100 and get about 2.3 mbps download speed (bits not bytes).Also make sure your test site is a good one ,no matter how fast you can download it will only receive as fast as the sender can send.
2006-08-14 01:39:13 · answer #4 · answered by M D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first check u r net speed why because if they say 256kbps that means 128 kbps upwards and 128 downwards
so to know u r speed goto http://www.numion.com
and check u r speedf if it is bottle neck for u r nic change the card
2006-08-14 01:37:19 · answer #5 · answered by ch_nagarajind 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋