if your lan is 10/100, does this mean you are no better off than to have a 100 mbs internet circuit?

I am reading that Comcast is coming out with 150 Mbs speed. Now I know my LAN is 10/100 and I know I could increase that speed with different cabling, but would my computer be a bottleneck if my internet was giving me the full 150Mbs?

a 10/100 will be fine, as would a 10/100/1000.

you internet traffic will not be effected by that. you have to account for overhead, your system, how busy the lines are, your network where its used... how many users are connected to it. Routers, wireless if any,

many factors of speed and throughput ...

think Iamnotbillgates said it well.

keep in mind as well... that your speed up and down are not exact. also if your service is 150 Mbps that will translate to around 18.75 MB max most ISP services advertise their service in Mega Bits per second not Mega Bytes.... you have 8 Bits to 1 Byte.

but if your worried... get yourself a 10/100/1000 lan and there should be no worries.

hope i helped

cheers

The speed of the lan being 10/100 means that the speed of the data transfer between the INTERNAL portions of your network are restricted to the fastest speed available through the NIC (Network Interface Card) in your computer/laptop.

Basically, what this means is that the data transfer on your LAN (Local Area Network) is restricted to no more than 100 mbps, but the portion to the Internet is controlled by the modem and its speed. This portion is called the WAN (Wide Area Network) and is OUTSIDE of the confines of your internal network.

The data is then buffered and fed to your computer at a speed that it can handle. So, NO, You are better off with the best you can afford, and makes sense to you. Remember that as the speed of your WAN increases, the cost of that connection also increases, sometimes greatly.

I hope this helps.

You may connect your PC and network drive through a gigabit switch. Internet will not benefit from this, though.

Yes but unless you have a fiber-optic internet connection, you will never get anywhere near 100mbs.

Yes.

Yes. You are right.