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A data bus usually installed directly into a computer's motherboard that is capable of gigabit data transfer speeds. It may also other hardware that interfaces with a computer that is capable of gigabit data transfer.
A gigabit hub is used to store and protect information and files through copying and safe keeping. A gigabit hub plugs into the computer and works through that.
The download from the ISP is not 1.5 gigabytes. It is 1.5 megabits per second or 1500 kilobits per second (kbps). A gigabit network interface card is used for local area network transfer of files at speeds of 1000 kbps not for transfer from the Internet. So gigabit NIC cards transfer data from computer to computer at these speeds and will not increase transfer data faster from the ISP to the computer at a faster rate than a 100 megabit NIC card. One might see a download speed in bits from the ISP at 1500 kilobits per second. However, if your application on your computer has a message saying transfer at 160 kBps this is words that have been transferred. Since there are 8 bits per word you would have to multiply the number of words times eight(8) to get the bits per second. So 160 x 8 would be 1280 kbps. Again, the gigabit board will not increase Internet download, only the speed that data is transferred between two computers on a local area network.
In order for you to achieve gigabit data rates, you need: * A gigabit Ethernet card (as you have) * A gigabit router * Cabling that is of correct length and quality to carry a gigabit signal. If these conditions are not met, the card will drop to the next available transfer rate.
Gigabit Ethernet is also known as 1000 mega bits per seconds (Mbps). It is a part of the family of Ethernet computer networking and communication standards.
Gigabit network cards are commonly available in virtually all computer and IT stores. There are many online sources like Amazon for example, who offer such network cards. Alternatively, most specialised local IT stores can provide you with gigabit equipment.
You would want to move to a Gigabit network. This will require a switch capable of Gigabit speeds, network cabling capable of Gigabit speeds (Cat 5e for example), and a network interface on a computer that is also Gigabit rated. Most modern switches are Gigabit rated (even inexpensive soho switches).
When talking about data transfer speeds most likely you will be talking about Megabits Per Second (Mbps) or Gigabit Per Second (Gbps).
It is not a complete necessity to have a gigabit Ethernet switch but it will increase processing speed to 1,000 Mbits per second. Earlier forms of the Ethernet switches were in the 10 to 100 megabit range.
The Netgear 24 gigabit switch enhances the performance of a computer networks processing of bandwidth-intensive tasks. As such, the main uses include the support of network VoIP, streaming media, multicasting, and security.
gigabit fidelity
A gigabit is a billion bits, but the term is often used to refer to a billion bits per second. A megabyte is a million bytes, and a byte is 8 bits. Thus, a gigabit is 125 megabytes (if you use the prefixes as multiples of 1,000) or 128 megabytes (if you use multiples of 1,024).However, for measuring data transfer rates, each byte of data typically has two additional bits for error-correction, so a gigabit per second is only 100 megabytes per second.