Fastest Desktop Network Card?

MCMailbox

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Hello!

I'm building my first desktop build, and I happen to be situated in a place where i can't get myself an actual Ethernet connection (without having to spend $1000+ for an electrician to route me a new one), so I need to have a wireless network adapter in it. I've been looking around and the only cards I could find for a desktop only go up to around a max of 300 Gbps, whereas my laptop's card gets about 450 Gbps with its internal card, which is rather infuriating considering its pretty much fact that anything that you can get on a desktop is better than what you can get on a laptop. Anyhow, I was wondering if I could get any suggestions on a comparable wireless network adapter for my desktop. It doesn't matter weather it's internal or external, I just need it so I can have a way to get internet on it and actually have somewhere close to the average speed of a decent desktop (considering all the cash I'm going to be forking out for it anyway, heh).

Thanks!
 
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Imagine it like this.
You have two pipes: a WAN pipe and a LAN pipe.
If your WAN pipe is only 1 mb/s big, it doesn't matter how big your LAN pipe is because you won't exceed 1 mb/s.

You are asking us how to increase your LAN speed. Maybe you should think about increasing your WAN speed.
Make sure that your Internet Service Provider is giving you good internet speeds. If speed sucks then you are just wasting money on your LAN connection because extra LAN speed won't actually increase your network speed.

mjmacka

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Imagine it like this.
You have two pipes: a WAN pipe and a LAN pipe.
If your WAN pipe is only 1 mb/s big, it doesn't matter how big your LAN pipe is because you won't exceed 1 mb/s.

You are asking us how to increase your LAN speed. Maybe you should think about increasing your WAN speed.
Make sure that your Internet Service Provider is giving you good internet speeds. If speed sucks then you are just wasting money on your LAN connection because extra LAN speed won't actually increase your network speed.
 
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I can not give enough +1 to this post.

Personally I have a rather slow IPS (20 down/1 up. its the 1 up that sucks) So even wireless G(54 tends to hag in the mid 20s after all the collision avoidance is taken into consideration) will handle this.

However I did go gigabit all over(years back actually) because the improvement in computer to computer has been great.
gigabitbecomesthebottle.jpg


You also have another option if you are just looking for Internet speed/reliability. You may wish to check out HomePlug(these do not have top end speed, but should be good for most internet users.)
https://www.homeplug.org/home/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePlug
 

yEPPY

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I see what you did there :D gbps and mbps
But seriously, there are actually 40gbps nic.
How does the 10gbps nic work? I want to have a 10gbps nic and i looked at the back of it, there are different inputs, can you help me? The one I am looking at is the Emulex OCE11102 NX