A Network Interface Card (NIC) connects the computer to a network. Most commonly installed internally, it provides the electronic and physical connection to the network media. Internally, the NIC, also known as a network adapter, is either an expansion card or built right into the motherboard. Exter

Latency is a value assigned to each device on the PCI bus which determines how long that device may "hold on" to the bus before it must relinquish it to another device which wishes to use it. The value is an integer between 0 and 248. A value of zero means the device will immediately give up the bus

PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), officially abbreviated as PCIe, is a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard, designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X, and AGP bus standards. PCIe has numerous improvements over the older standards, including higher maximum system b

A network interface controller (NIC, also known as a network interface card, network adapter, LAN adapter or physical network interface and by similar terms) is a computer hardware component that connects a computer to a computer network.Early network interface controllers were commonly implemented

A network interface card (NIC) is a circuit board or card that is installed in a computer so that it can be connected to a network. A network interface card provides the computer with a dedicated, full-time connection to a network. Personal computers and workstations on a local area network (LAN) ty

A network interface controller (NIC, also known as a network interface card, network adapter, LAN adapter or physical network interface and by similar terms) is a computer hardware component that connects a computer to a computer network.Early network interface controllers were commonly implemented

Ethernet PCI adapters and Network Interface Cards do the same job: they allow a computer to connect to the rest of the network via a Cat5 cable, and communicate with said network. However, their similarities almost completely end there.Network Interface Card A network interface card (NIC) is a circu

Ethernet in computer networks refers to a collection of standards and components, which provides a media to communicate in a Local Area Network (LAN), between network devices. There are various standards developed during past decades, IEEE came with “IEEE 802.3 – Ethernet standard” under IEEE 802 pr

It is hard to imagine computers that were outside of a network due to the rise of the Internet, but there was a time in which computers were loners. Internal network cards allowed computers to become social and communicate with each other. The internal network card has also been known as network int