my local area connection speed is 100.0mbps. what dose this mean?

Answer 1

Typically local area network (LAN) connections run at 100 Mbps (megabits per second). Of course, this is only the speed of your local area network and not the Internet. That is, if you have multiple computers or other devices connected to your LAN, they can communicate with each other at this speed. Connecting to computers outside of your LAN through the Internet is dependent upon your connection speed to your Internet Service Provider (ISP). To find out the speed of your connection to the Internet via your ISP, visit DSLReports.com.

Answer 2

Local Area Connection Speed

Answer 3

At this time, this is a common LAN speed. It means that you can transmit data on your LAN at 100 Megabits / second. A Megabit is 1,000,000 bits per second.

Ten years ago, 10 Mbps was the norm. Today you can, with proper equipment and installation, run at 1,000 Mbps which is also called 1 Gbps (gigabit). Gigabit speeds are common on a server and on network switch - network switch uplinks.

A T1 line, which is a WAN connection runs at 1.5 Mbps; Cable TV Internet runs a download speed from 2.0 - 8.0 Mbps depending upon the carrier and system; DSL download speeds run from 0.768 - 6.0 Mpbs.

Keep in mind that 1,000 Kbps = 1 Mbps; and 1,000 Mbps = 1 Gbps.

File size is usually in KB. There are 8 b / B (bits per byte). People often ask how long it takes to download or transfer a file. You convert the file from KB to Kb (multiply by 8) and divide by the speed in Kbps. This assumes NO OTHER traffic on the network which is almost never the case.

Answer 4

Ok, not to get things confused here Broadband, Dial-up, DSL, etc are categories for Internet services. LAN and WAN are network connections. A LAN(Local area connection) Pertains to a series of machines and routers, etc in a single building for example and a WAN(Wide Area Network) would be like businesses and multiple computers connected within a region. As far as your Internet goes Dial-up would be if you plug a phone cord into your modem on your computer. Cable/DSL usually comes from a wireless connection through your cable provider and then broadband usually is provided via your phone company. This would be how to determine your Internet service. Good luck and hope this helps.

Answer 5

that means your computer's modem is capable of tranferring data at 100mbit/second. NOTE that 1bit equals to 1/8byte. this is not your download speed from the internet, that speed is provided by your isp. local are connention isn't only limited to the internet connection. the speed at which you can transfer data between your home network is also limited by this speed. for example, i have a 5mbit/s(download speed) internet so when i'm downloading stuff from the internet, the local area connection speed meter can only go up to 5% at the very most. However, if i'm transferring files between another computer at my home network, depending on the speed on my router(108mbit/s) the speed meter can go up to 100%. now most new motherboards come with Gigabit/s LAN(1000mbit/s) for some serious speed between the networked computers

Answer 6

if you have to pc's connected on a network your Ethernet card can swap data between pc's at this rate.bits this and bites that don't worry if you swap large files over a network that's how fast it will run flat out.
but if you have a network make sure you have a dump drive.a second hard drive on one or all machines you can store files.
so if your windows goes belly up on you the second drives will still have your stuff safe.

Answer 7

that means that it is transferring data at 100 megabits per second.

For a better definition:

A megabit per second (abbreviated as Mbps, Mbit/s, or mbps) is a unit of data transfer rates equal to 1,000,000 bits per second (this equals 1,000 kilobits per second). Because there are 8 bits in a byte, a transfer speed of 8 megabits per second (8 Mbps) is equivalent to 1,000,000 bytes per second (approximately 976 KiB/s).

Answer 8

mbps is, please not, mega BITS per second.

this is not the broadband speed, but the speed your lan card is capable of.

8 bits = 1 byte. So 100 mbps ~= 12.5 MBps (mga Bytes per sec.)

Bytes is the unit you will see around in use.

Answer 9

It means that your local area connection is capable of 100 mbs.

Answer 10

it mean ur internet is fast!! thats the speed of ur internet! the capable speed of ur net...!