cat4
advantage: it is very common and inexpensive disadvantage: you are limited in speed to 100 Mbps
100 mbps
Category 3 LAN Cables, maximum speed is 10 Mbps. It can be used for telephones as well, option for Ethernet in years past.
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.
Fiber optics is the type of communications cable is used by 100BaseFX networks. 100BaseFX falls under the 'Fast Ethernet' category as it transmits data at 100 Mbps.
802.11n is wireless. This means that (a) it isn't Ethernet, it is a different standard. (b) It doesn't use cables.The maximum speed (bandwidth, to be more accurate) is 600 Mbps.802.11n is wireless. This means that (a) it isn't Ethernet, it is a different standard. (b) It doesn't use cables.The maximum speed (bandwidth, to be more accurate) is 600 Mbps.802.11n is wireless. This means that (a) it isn't Ethernet, it is a different standard. (b) It doesn't use cables.The maximum speed (bandwidth, to be more accurate) is 600 Mbps.802.11n is wireless. This means that (a) it isn't Ethernet, it is a different standard. (b) It doesn't use cables.The maximum speed (bandwidth, to be more accurate) is 600 Mbps.
100BASE-T has a data trasnfer rate up to 100 Mbps. 100BASE-T is based on the older Ethernet standard. Its 10 times faster than Ethernet it is also called Fast Ethernet. The 100BASE-T standard is IEEE 802.3u
10-Mbps Ethernet, 100-Mbps or Fast Ethernet, and 1000-Mbps or Gigabit Ethernet.
The term that best describes an Ethernet system operating at 100 Mbps is "Fast Ethernet." Fast Ethernet is a standard that allows for data transmission at 100 megabits per second, typically using twisted pair cabling (like Category 5) or fiber optics. It was widely adopted in the late 1990s and serves as an upgrade from the original 10 Mbps Ethernet.
Ethernet standard 802.3u refers to Fast Ethernet, which supports data transfer rates of 100 Mbps. It primarily uses twisted-pair cabling (such as Category 5 cables) and can also operate over fiber optic connections. Fast Ethernet is widely utilized in local area networks (LANs) to provide faster data transmission compared to the original 10 Mbps Ethernet (802.3).
cat5
Ethernet is the most popular networking technology used in LANs. Fast Ethernet is used to refer to any version of Ethernet that meets or surpasses the 100 Mbps transfer speed.