10Mbps vs 100Mbps Help please

[Travlur]

Could someone explain to me what the difference is, please.
I want to purchase a PCMCIA card for an old laptop, and I see both a 10T
card only and a 10/100 also. The price of them is drastically different.

[skhips]

10 mbps means you are transferring 10 million bits of data every second.

100 mbps means you are transferring 100 million bits of data every second.

A 10 / 100 card means it can do both.

Your Hub and cabling must be capable of 100mbps as well before you can get the speed.

Bearing in mind a 56K modem does 56 thousand bits a second and even cable is only 500 thousand a second a 10mbps (10 million) is fast enough for most users unless you want to transfer large graphic type files.

10BASET = 10mbps Baseband over Twisted Copper Wires.

[Travlur]

Thanks SKHPS.
I am using a cable modem to hook to net, so it looks like a 10Mbps is more
than enuff. I'm not into graphics per se, other than whatever is sent from
your average web site.

[hiredgoonz]

Even with the faster card, you're going to run into a bottleneck with the IDE drives...they're not going to sustain a read/write faster than 12-15mb per second, and it's usually lower than that, so you could buy gigabit ethernet and it's not going to help...

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