Gigabit Ethernet...

[GSV010]

I have a pentium 4 based mobo (asus p5vd2-vm-se) with via vt8237s built in 10/100 mac with external phy., while its other model (asus p5vd2-vm has a pci gb lan. now my question is: even if your unit has 10/100 lan but as long as you have a strong internet signal (e.g. 5mbps in broadband router), does it perform just like a gigabit ethernet? is there any difference in performance? thanks to any reply..

[Guest]

If you have 10/100 ethernet port, you don't have a "gigabit", that would be 10/100/1000.

100mbps is the band (amount od data) it can hold, so if you have a 5mbps signal from the router, it'll just work @ 100mbps from the router to your pc, but only 5 mbps from the router to your internet provider.

Instead of 0.5 seconds to send 5mb of data, it'll take 0.05 seconds.

The limit is the quantity of data going from a point to another.

Cheers!

d.

P.s. Performance is the same, no worries. Unless you have bugged or faulty chip for your integrated ethernet.

[Qwerty]

If you have a 5 MBit internet connection it doesn't matter if you have 10 MBit, 100 MBit, 1 GBit or even 10 GBit network. You will get data from the internet at 5 MBit/s - the internet connection is the bottleneck!

The speed of the network matters only if you have a local network with more than one PC at home. In this case your computers will be able to utilize the full bandwith (100 MBit or 1 GBit). But your internet connection will still be at 5 MBit/s.

[Marcin]

I agree with above comments but for example in practise at my 1000Mbps network I cann't get transfer speed (files) more that 200 Mbps so I'm using only about 20% of declared speed. I didn't test 10 Mbps LAN but I suspect 5Mbps internet connection speed will not be possible to use on full speed at this rate. Anyway at 100 and 1000 Mbps option author of this thread shouldn't worry about it.