Re: Can I use this card?

"Richard G. Harper" <rgharper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:et5TzNzQFHA.2748@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In theory, yes. In reality it depends on your hardware - the card should
> work with existing 10/100 hubs and switches but in reality sometimes
things
> aren't that neat.

What Richard said, plus (a bit of elaboration):

It really doesn't matter what your card is when you
connect to "the Internet" -- as long as your network
supports that card and your routers are able to route
traffic to and from it.

You aren't going to have a GB connection physically
to the Internet, that is going to be something like a dial,
DSL, Cable, T1 or similar WAN connection in almost
all cases.

So you have a router, that routes from your internal NIC
to that network used by your ISP to let you access the
Internet.

So the real question, as Richard has indicated, is:

Will it work with your existing hardware? Can you
connect to your ROUTER (that routes to the Internet)?

It is unlikely that your Router to the Internet is going
to support GB speeds directly unless you are using a
computer (Windows, UNIX etc) and have specifically
installed a GB card in that machine as well.

You COULD be using a high end router (e.g., Cisco)
with such NIC but that is unlikely if you are asking this
question.

You likely have one of these very common (and cheap)
Ethernet-DSL (or cable etc) routers that offer 100 Mbps
connections or even contain their own "hub".

Most of the GB cards will downshift speeds to 100 Mbps,
but you may have to provide a setting (on the NIC) to
force that.

If you had a Gig/100/10 Hub (similar to the almost
ubiquitous 100/10 hubs) then you could always just
plug it in and the hub would take care of bridging
it over to the 100 Mbps network.

In other words, you will likely need to run the GB
card as a 100 Mbps NIC to get it to work (with the
things you likely already have in your network.)


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