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I'm not really into networking and such things...so I'm pretty clueless.
We are planning on getting/upgrading to 8Mbps connection; however, a friend of mine said it's not worth it. He said the PC at home can only maximize 1Mbps of the connection, hence upgrading to something lower is better (and cheaper). Now, can somebody shed some light here.
Is it really true I can't use the whole 8Mbps? Where is the problem in this..is it the modem? the router? How can I know the maximum speed my PC or anyone's PC can receive?
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Posted 15 June 2010 - 10:00 PM
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10/100Gbit/sec ethernet ports have built standard into most computers have been around for over twenty years, there's no reason you would not be able to utilize external bandwidth such as 1MiB/sec.
Your friend probably wasn't understanding something about the suffixes that ISPs would use.
ISPs do not list megabyte per second speeds, they list megabit per second bandwidths. This means that eight megabits will resolve to one megabyte per second which is a fair speed for an internet provider. There are 8 bits in one byte.
Although your computer may be able to utilize it, note most servers on the internet (especially linked through the internet around your ISP's gateways) may limit what you can pull from the web, you may only reach 300KB/s speeds max most of the time. Although you will be able to get peak speeds on compliant servers.
My final note is that is a fast speed, if you had/needed the choice something a bit less fast would be the choice if it's significantly cheaper, as the internet is still, well, slow.
Your friend probably wasn't understanding something about the suffixes that ISPs would use.
ISPs do not list megabyte per second speeds, they list megabit per second bandwidths. This means that eight megabits will resolve to one megabyte per second which is a fair speed for an internet provider. There are 8 bits in one byte.
Although your computer may be able to utilize it, note most servers on the internet (especially linked through the internet around your ISP's gateways) may limit what you can pull from the web, you may only reach 300KB/s speeds max most of the time. Although you will be able to get peak speeds on compliant servers.
My final note is that is a fast speed, if you had/needed the choice something a bit less fast would be the choice if it's significantly cheaper, as the internet is still, well, slow.
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Posted 16 June 2010 - 04:46 AM
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Unless you have a VERY old computer (like a 486), it is very unlikely that your computer won't be able to handle the data. Of course, you didn't really define how old your computer is, or what hardware it has.
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Posted 16 June 2010 - 05:14 AM
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WingedPanther said:
Unless you have a VERY old computer (like a 486), it is very unlikely that your computer won't be able to handle the data. Of course, you didn't really define how old your computer is, or what hardware it has.
Gigabit LAN was around roughly nine years before the 80486(i486) was introduced. So it shouldn't be much of an issue on the age aspect, unless the computer in question was from before ~1981.
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Posted 16 June 2010 - 10:17 PM
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Not that old, lol that's antic computers, I don't even know if there's a computer from 1981 still running today. hehehe...
Noob question again: The computer doesn't have anything to do with the data transfer? The one that handles that is the ethernet ports(router?)
Noob question again: The computer doesn't have anything to do with the data transfer? The one that handles that is the ethernet ports(router?)
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Posted 16 June 2010 - 11:03 PM
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Routers are often certified to handle up to 100/1000/10000/100000 MB/s wired and/or 12/28/54/64MBps wirelessly so that is not of an issue, the router/ethernet adapter can accept information much faster than the computer. If you look at the back of your computer at the ethernet hub it should say 100MB/s or something similar.
What you're grabbing from the internet, say 1MB/s on your internet connection, well guess what? The harddrive, even older ones can easily write at multi gigabyte speeds, the memory (where the drivers that handle the internet data are) can be even faster!
To answer your question, the bandwidth of the line is how much data it can send per second, your computer can accept much more than that, and yes it handles all of it. The ethernet hub simply translates internet data into packets.
What you're grabbing from the internet, say 1MB/s on your internet connection, well guess what? The harddrive, even older ones can easily write at multi gigabyte speeds, the memory (where the drivers that handle the internet data are) can be even faster!
To answer your question, the bandwidth of the line is how much data it can send per second, your computer can accept much more than that, and yes it handles all of it. The ethernet hub simply translates internet data into packets.
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Posted 24 October 2010 - 04:08 PM
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Your PC will be fine.
But remember 8mbs is rarely that fast.
When comes to servers MAX upload speed the main advantage is that you can be downloading from different servers at once (e,.g. you can download 8 files each going at speeds of 1mbs)
But remember 8mbs is rarely that fast.
When comes to servers MAX upload speed the main advantage is that you can be downloading from different servers at once (e,.g. you can download 8 files each going at speeds of 1mbs)
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