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Types of network card speed
2017-01-17
Network Card

With the rapid development of computer network technology, to meet the needs of a variety of application environments and application levels, there are so many different types of network card in the market, speed requirements of the network card have become diversified. Now, we are going to classify the mainstream network cards in the current market based on different speed.

10Mbps network card

10Mbps network card is old-fashioned and low-grade. Its bandwidth is limited to 10Mbps, which was commonly used in network card in the ISA bus. Now, types of PCI bus interface card also have some 10Mbps network cards, but this kind of network card is not popular anymore, It is only adapted to some small local area network or family needs, medium-sized and above the network is generally not selected, but its price is relatively cheap.

10Mbps network card 

100Mbps network card

At present, 100Mbps network card is a more advanced network card, and its transmission I / O bandwidth up to 100Mbps, and it is widely used in the backbone network. Currently, 100Mbps network cards have been gradually gaining popularity in the market, but its price is higher than 10Mbps network card. It is worth noting that some non-brand-name 100Mbps network card cannot be compatible with 10Mbps network.

100Mbps network card

10Mbps/100Mbps network card 

10Mbps/100Mbps network card can self-adapt to 10Mbps and 100Mbps bandwidth, and it is also the most widely used in the market, mainly because it can automatically adapt to the needs of two different bandwidths, and protect the user's network investment. It can be connected with the old 10Mbps network equipment, but also can be applied to 100Mbps network equipment connection, so get the user's welcome. 10Mbps/100Mbps network card will automatically select the appropriate bandwidth according to the environment, such as connected with the 10Mbps equipment, the bandwidth of it is 10Mbps, but if it is connected with the 100Mbps network equipment, then its bandwidth is 100Mbps, which means it can be compatible with 10Mbps network equipment and 100Mbps network equipment.
10Mbps 100Mbps network card

1000Mbps network card

1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) is a high-speed local area network technology, it can provide 1Gbps bandwidth on copper. And the network card that corresponds to it is Gigabit Ethernet. The bandwidth of 1000Mbps network card can reach 1Gbps. There are two main types of Gigabit Ethernet network interface: the ordinary twisted pair RJ-45 interface, and multi-mode SC-type standard optical interface.
1000Mbps network card

10GbE network card

10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GE, 10GbE, or 10 GigE) is a group of computer networking technologies for transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of 10 gigabits per second (10×109 or 10 billion bits per second). Like previous versions of Ethernet, 10GbE can use either copper or fiber cabling. However, because of its bandwidth requirements, higher-grade copper cables are required: category 6a or Class F/Category 7 cables for lengths up to 100 meters.
10GbE network card

Summary

Because of network cards with different speed are used in different applications, you’d better to know what’s the difference between them, so that allow you to choose the best one when purchase. We hope that you have gain the clear understanding of it after reading this guide.
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