NIC Speed Variations

[MrLewisMHarris]

What are the different speeds of network interface cards?

 

Obviously there's 10/100/1000, Gigabit and now there's 10 Gigabit, but is there any speeds in between gigabit and 10 gigabit?

 

Reason I'm looking it because I want to get something faster than 1 Gigabit, but without having to spend £200+ on a 10Gigabit NIC when I won't be able to utilize the speeds.

 

Thanks in advance, I love everything about this forum 

[H4nn3s]

You could team two or more gigabit ports, if you have them available.

[MrLewisMHarris]

You could team two or more gigabit ports, if you have them available.

Interesting concept. If I was to buy this NIC, for example, would it be to running 2gbps split between the two ports (1gbps/each) or 1gbps split between the two (500mbps/each)?

[H4nn3s]

Interesting concept. If I was to buy this NIC, for example, would it be to running 2gbps split between the two ports (1gbps/each) or 1gbps split between the two (500mbps/each)?

If you team both it would run at 2 gigabit, around 200 megabyte.

[Wombo]

What are the different speeds of network interface cards?

 

Obviously there's 10/100/1000, Gigabit and now there's 10 Gigabit, but is there any speeds in between gigabit and 10 gigabit?

 

Reason I'm looking it because I want to get something faster than 1 Gigabit, but without having to spend £200+ on a 10Gigabit NIC when I won't be able to utilize the speeds.

 

Thanks in advance, I love everything about this forum 

There are solutions for bandwidths between 1Gbps and 10Gbps but they are really only in use in certain PoE WAP enterprise deployments. Your best option would be some form of link aggregation through LACP. This does require both ends of the ethernet segment to support this feature however.

[braneopbru]

What are the different speeds of network interface cards?

 

Obviously there's 10/100/1000, Gigabit and now there's 10 Gigabit, but is there any speeds in between gigabit and 10 gigabit?

 

Reason I'm looking it because I want to get something faster than 1 Gigabit, but without having to spend £200+ on a 10Gigabit NIC when I won't be able to utilize the speeds.

 

Thanks in advance, I love everything about this forum 

You'll spending a LOT more that £200 to do anything faster than gigabit. You can actually get 10Gbe cards on ebay for as cheap as $15 US plus shipping. I have a pair of Mellanox cards that cost me $36 US.

 

You you are just going from computer to computer, it's not too bad; you can just get a pair of SFP+ transceivers for about $25 US and a short run of fiber optic cable to connect the two. 

 

If you want to bring 10Gbe to your whole network, get the vaseline and bend over. The price of switches has come down a LOT, but you can still expect to pay at LEAST about $500 for a switch with SFP+.

 

If this is something you're interested in, you'd be better served by lurking around the Serve The Home forums.

 

Lastly, do yourself a BIG favour and just stay far away from 10GbaseT.

[Samfisher]

What are the different speeds of network interface cards?

 

Obviously there's 10/100/1000, Gigabit and now there's 10 Gigabit, but is there any speeds in between gigabit and 10 gigabit?

 

Reason I'm looking it because I want to get something faster than 1 Gigabit, but without having to spend £200+ on a 10Gigabit NIC when I won't be able to utilize the speeds.

 

Thanks in advance, I love everything about this forum 

You COULD get 8Gigabit fibre channel modules.... B)