What is a network card?

[Danielh90]

I am wondering what is a network card? 

[minibois]

I am wondering what is a network card? 

A PCIE card with either ethernet ports or WiFi..

The ethernet ones are mostly unnecessary for most consumers, as motherboards pretty much always have good enough ethernet built in.

WiFi cards are a bit more common, as not all motherboards have WiFi.

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_card

 

 

A Network interface card, NIC, or Network card -  an electronic device that connects a computer to a computer network, usually a LAN. It is considered a piece of computer hardware. Today, most computers have network cards. Network cards enable a computer to exchange data with the network. To achieve the connection, network cards use a suitable protocol, for example CSMA/CD. Network cards usually implement the first two layers of the OSI model, that is the physical layer, and the data link layer. Today, most network cards use Ethernet.

[Danielh90]

A PCIE card with either ethernet ports or WiFi..

The ethernet ones are mostly unnecessary for most consumers, as motherboards pretty much always have good enough ethernet built in.

WiFi cards are a bit more common, as not all motherboards have WiFi.

Then why do linus put a network card in there workstations?

[minibois]

Then why do linus put a network card in there workstations?

As said, most consumers/users don't need it.

The people working at Linus Media Group are an exception, since they need it actually. Their network cards are faster than the onboard network solution (meaning: the network cards are probably gigabit speed and the onboard is not)

[Danielh90]

As said, most consumers/users don't need it.

The people working at Linus Media Group are an exception, since they need it actually. Their network cards are faster than the onboard network solution (meaning: the network cards are probably gigabit speed and the onboard is not)

Ok Thank you! 

[MariusJS]

As said, most consumers/users don't need it.

The people working at Linus Media Group are an exception, since they need it actually. Their network cards are faster than the onboard network solution (meaning: the network cards are probably gigabit speed and the onboard is not)

LTT uses 10Gbit network cards, their onboard ones are mostly 1Gbit, some of them are 10Gbit, and those PC's do not need PCIe cards

[InVis]

You would also need more networkcards if a computer needs to be able to talk to different networks (either segmented by vlans or another router)..

Its pretty common to have more network cards in servers or computers that need to access different servers with different zone-policies