Thread: 100M Network Card query
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Old 13-08-2014, 07:40   #11
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Re: Network Card query
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Originally Posted by rhyds View Post
The short answer is that TCP/IP network connections have "overheads" which use up about 20% of the available bandwidth. Therefore at full chat your 100mbit network card will only be able to provide 80mbit actual data throughput.
The real answer is that is bollocks, TCP/IP overheads will cause you to lose up to 2% of the available bandwidth. If you are losing 20% something is seriously screwed up with your connection and has nothing to do with TCP/IP ---------- Post added at 06:40 ---------- Previous post was at 06:38 ----------
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Originally Posted by The Yank View Post
pc has 100MBPS card Laptop ? but I'd guess 1GB get between 5MB and 30 MB on speedtest though s/b 100 or 120
There is no such thing as a 100MBPS card, nor is there any such thing as a 1GB card. You must be mixing up MBPS and Mbps. Nonetheless, you should be getting 95Mbps+ on a 100Mbps card.

If multiple devices are getting such low speeds chances are you have a dodgy VM connection or congestion, which is not uncommon. Particularly if speeds are higher at off-peak times of day.
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