speed on network

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Sam

When I go into the Control Panel, and double click
Network Connections and then double click on the LAN, I
see the speed at 100 mbps. I would like to increase it to
help my Internet connection. It would be nice to go a
little faster for browing webpages on the Internet. Any
ideas?
 
Sam said:
When I go into the Control Panel, and double click
Network Connections and then double click on the LAN, I
see the speed at 100 mbps. I would like to increase it to
help my Internet connection. It would be nice to go a
little faster for browing webpages on the Internet. Any
ideas?
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With a typical home network, 100 Mb/s is the peak datarate between
your PC and the DSL or cable modem. The peak datarate between
that modem and the web is <5 Mb/s. So, since the WAN-side of
the modem is the bottleneck, cranking up the datarate on the
LAN-side will have almost no effect.

And, the next step up on your LAN is from 100 Mb/s to 1000 Mb/s,
known as GbE. Someday, GbE will be dirt cheap, as 100 Mb/s is;
today, GbE costs more than most SOHO users can afford.
 
BAH!!!! Don't be suckered in by sales representatives!!!

Everything that you want to do to increase speed should
focus on the slowest part of your setup. Going for a
Gigabit ethernet card would be like taking a Formula1 or
CART car (here your ethernet card) and putting crap
Motomaster street tires on it (your internet). Sure,
you'd have 800hp and a great looking car, but would you
be able to go as fast as a Nissan Z350? not a snowballs
chance in H-E-double-hockey-sticks.

I was in the process of looking for a wireless router to
set up for my home network that I'm going to complete in
about a month. Since I'm not going to be doing that much
file transferring between the different computers, and
the fact that my laptop only has 802.11b built in, I
decided to stick with the "b" rating. When I told the
sales representative that I didn't want to shell out the
money for "g" rated hardware that I was never going to
use or be able to take advantage of, they told me "Oh,
it's so much better, blah blah blah, it's 5 times faster
than "b", blah blah blah, yap yap yap". It's a bunch of
crap...

I've got high-speed DSL connection at home, and with my
desktop computer the highest download speed that I've
ever seen was 400kbps (this showed showed up in the IE
download screen) while I was downloading a game called
RedMoon back in the day when it was still Beta. That's
250X slower than what my 100Mbps ethernet card is capable
of, and 25X slower than a 10Mbps card can do...

If you're ever wondering what you can do to help speed
things up, ask questions, and ask lots. Knowledge is
power and money kept in your pocket.

Hope this helps,

Nick
nkjg/at\interchange/dot\ubc/dot\ca
 
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