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Is a gigabit card faster than a megabyte card on Internet downloading if ISP comes in at 1.5 gigabytes?
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∙ 14y ago
The download from the ISP is not 1.5 gigabytes. It is 1.5 megabits per second or 1500 kilobits per second (kbps). A gigabit network interface card is used for local area network transfer of files at speeds of 1000 kbps not for transfer from the internet. So gigabit NIC cards transfer data from computer to computer at these speeds and will not increase transfer data faster from the ISP to the computer at a faster rate than a 100 megabit NIC card. One might see a download speed in bits from the ISP at 1500 kilobits per second. However, if your application on your computer has a message saying transfer at 160 kBps this is words that have been transferred. Since there are 8 bits per word you would have to multiply the number of words times eight(8) to get the bits per second. So 160 x 8 would be 1280 kbps. Again, the gigabit board will not increase Internet download, only the speed that data is transferred between two computers on a local area network.
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