Internal or External, and what do Ghz's do?

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teddy baltz

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Hi,
I just finished my first pc build, and it worked without a problem, but I haven't installed a network adapter yet. Is it better to get internal or external? also could you tell me what Ghz and mbps affect, as well as any other stats it might be useful to know about for me to make my decision. And if you'd like to make a recommendation, I have a budget of 40$. Thanks in advance!
 
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Internal will run faster than external, although 99% of people won't see much difference since their Internet connections won't stress a 100Mbps port, let alone a 1Gbps/1000Mbps port.

As for the terms:
-- Mpbs = 1 Megabit (1,000,000 bits) per second; similarly, 1 Gbps = 1 Gigabit (1,000 Megabits) per second
-- Generally speaking, 1 byte = 8 bits (although, depending on the type of communication protocol, it may end up being effective 10 or 12 bits per byte)
-- The speed of your connection, as advertised by your Internet provider, will be measured in Mbps (or, for the rare 1%, in Gbps); when you're downloading a file to your hard drive, however, it will show the download speed in MB/second (Megabytes/second; 1,024 kilobytes/second...
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Well, that's going to depend on the router and/or wireless Access Point in your home.

Just get a PCIe network adpater card or a USB adapter. If you have a wireless network available then just get the best rated 2.4GHz Wireless N card. 300mbps is better than 150mbps but you won't notice for general web browsing. I wouldn't worry about external. In fact, I'm not even sure what you would be referring to unless it was a bridge and you don't want that for your purposes.
 
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Internal will run faster than external, although 99% of people won't see much difference since their Internet connections won't stress a 100Mbps port, let alone a 1Gbps/1000Mbps port.

As for the terms:
-- Mpbs = 1 Megabit (1,000,000 bits) per second; similarly, 1 Gbps = 1 Gigabit (1,000 Megabits) per second
-- Generally speaking, 1 byte = 8 bits (although, depending on the type of communication protocol, it may end up being effective 10 or 12 bits per byte)
-- The speed of your connection, as advertised by your Internet provider, will be measured in Mbps (or, for the rare 1%, in Gbps); when you're downloading a file to your hard drive, however, it will show the download speed in MB/second (Megabytes/second; 1,024 kilobytes/second, or 1,048,576 bytes/second).

So, essentialy, for every 1Mbps of connection speed you have, your maximum file download rate will be ~120kB/second (i.e. a 10Mbps connection gets you a maximum download rate of ~1,220 kB or 1.19MB per second).
 
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