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Post by Nicky Peter Hollyoake on Aug 19, 2008 21:36:11 GMT -5
Your upload/download speed can only go to a maxinum depending what your internet providers give you right?
Well if thats the case, then why can you buy routers/wires, etc that say it will increase the speed of them? I seriously don't get how that would go.
Anyone got any ideas?
- Nicky
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Post by Darkjester on Aug 19, 2008 22:25:14 GMT -5
It doesnt exactly mean to increase speed it means across high amounts of bandwidth meaning instead of breaking say 128kb of data speed between pcs it gives a lot more bandwidth speed between pcs meaning that it should at least output as much as it inputs.
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Post by Pizzasgood on Aug 23, 2008 11:27:57 GMT -5
The internet speed is limited by the lowest common denominator between your networking equipment, your ISP's plan and gear, the website's networking equipment and their ISP's gear/plan. Not to mention traffic and sharing your connection between other computers...
All you need to have is equipment that is faster than the connection the ISP gives you. Which is pretty much anything nowadays.
However, if you have more than one computer and want to transfer data between them, then the only limits are the gear and the two computers. So in that case getting very fast network cards and routers really will speed things up. For example, when I was at my Mom's house over summer, if I wanted to transfer a big file to my sister's computer I could do it over the WiFi network, but that would be slow (but still faster than the internet). So I usually just grabbed an Ethernet cable and plugged into the router she was hooked up to (the wall plug is in her room for some reason) and could transfer much faster.
This is particularly relevant to people who want to set up one computer as a media server to hold all their music and video, and then access it from another computer on the same network.
The main thing to remember is watch out for bottlenecks. If your network card can only do 100mb/s, there isn't much point in a router that does 1000mb/s (unless you plan to someday upgrade the network card) and vice versa.
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