My internet connection speed is 512, One of my friends is only 256 and hers says 10.0mbps as well, another of my friends is on adsl2 and theirs says 100mbps, what does it all mean and if I am faster than my friends why are we both the same?
2007-04-29 00:56:48 · 8 answers · asked by yahwhooon 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
You have to distinguish between the internet speed, and your local LAN speed, you can have an internet speed of 1024K but on the connection status will show 10M.. the issue is that you Ethernet NIC card can come with 10M,100M,1000M (1G), and those are the speed in your local area network LAN (Inside), in other words the speed between you PC and the switch port connected to. However the 128K,256K,512K and so on are the Internet (WAN) speeds (Outside) that you have between your Router and the Internet Service Provider.
You are both the same because you both are using NIC (Network Interface Cards) that supports the speed of 10M, but still you will have an Internet Speed that is higher than hers.
On the connection status you will always find 10.100,1000 for Ethernet LAN connections and 54.0M for Wireless Conneections.
Hope this helps
2007-04-29 01:09:57 · answer #1 · answered by Sedi_Eng 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The maximum data transfer rate is determined by the Network Interface Card (NIC) in your PC. The person that sees "100mbps" has a newer NIC card.
It doesn't really matter though, both speeds are faster than needed to surf the web. You would only see a difference PC to PC on your own network.
2007-04-29 01:02:53 · answer #2 · answered by ELfaGeek 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the speed you are seeing from your lan is the speed from the pc to the connection point....wether thats a router or modem or gateway or whatever.....its not your internet connection speed. If yours is reading 10mbps then you are connected to your router/modem at the 10mbps setting, your friend has a 10/100 mbps card installed and the connection he has is getting the 100mbps side of the card....some nic cards or built-in lan connection will connect at the highest speed possible and others will actually slow down to the lower rate to ensure a stable connection....it is still faster than your actual internet connection so it doesn't matter.
2007-04-29 01:03:14 · answer #3 · answered by Helping Since 1969 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-04-29 01:01:26 · answer #4 · answered by artim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The speed seldom is even close to what ever is on the screen. The only way to know how you are doing is to time several downloads and average them out. then time several uploads and average them out.
If you can get above two mega bytes per minute then you are doing ok. Yes some get more than that but thre are a heck of a lot that get a lot less than that.
just ignore that little figure.
2007-04-29 01:36:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That sounds like network speed, not internet connection speed.
2007-04-29 01:00:30 · answer #6 · answered by googledwithonekick 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
my internet says 2.2mbps when im only 1meh internet i think its the ISP internet sevice provider thast screwing up.
or it could be somthing your attached to e.g. xbox live when im on it says 100mbps but that just means it trasfering 100mbps between my xbox and pc for the internet to work on it
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