In telecommunications, bit rate or data transfer rate is the average number of bits, characters, or blocks per unit time passing between equipment in a data transmission system. This is typically measured in multiples of the unit bit per second or byte per second.
Megabit per secondA megabit per second (Mbit/s, Mb/s, or Mbps; not to be confused with mbit/s which means, literally, millibit per second) is a unit of data transfer rate equal to:
Cat5e is 100 mbps.
Dial-Up: 56 kbps DSL: 128 kbps - 8 mbps Cable: up to 400 mbps 2G: 384 kbps 3G: 3.6 mbps 3.5G: 14.4 mbps 4G: 21 mbps
Cat 2 cable was rated at 4 or 16 mbps whereas cat 3 cable would be rated at 10 mbps. Since 10baseT networks with Ethernet ran at 10 mbps this meant that cat 2 cable would not be useable in those networks. The minimum category cable for those networks had to be at least a cat 3 cable.
i normally get speeds varying from 12-19 mbps download.
100 mbps
A Fire Wire 400 cable.
Yes, category 3 cable would work at that speed.
10 to 1000 Mbps for less than +/- 100m
cat4
Cable modems runs faster than DSL. Cable internet supports approximately 30 Mbps of bandwidth, whereas most forms of DSL cannot reach 10 Mbps.
Any new installation will not use cat 3 cable; it is rated at only 10 Mbps and most LANs will run at least 100 Mbps, if not higher.
Usually a cable modem is about 30 mbps and DSL can up to 768 kbps.