Network Connection Help

[imported_Werdna]

Alright, well lets see. On my girlfriends laptop there are two connections. One only geting 10mbps and another getting 400mbps. So i would like to switch from the 10 to the 400 if that is possible.

Im testing out this forum for the first time. I hope its everything i expect.

 

[imported_Werdna]

Well i guess noone had any thoughts on this?

Oh well maybe ill have better luck with my future posts.

 

[montag451]

Hi,
Can you be a bit more specific - has she got two NIC cards?
If so,
Disable the one you don't want in Device Manager.

If I have the wrong end of the stick, then post lots more details so ppl know what you are on about.

 

[imported_Werdna]

Alright, i have a few more detiails. Im sorry for not including them from the start.

Anyways one of the connectinos that shows up is the 1394 connection-1394 net adapter. Which i assumed to be a net card. And the other is, well i forgot but its the ones she is using. So maybe that would help?

Sorry for being a bit more vague but the computer is in her dorm atm. Sorry

 

[FlyingPenguin]

1394 is her firewire port. You only use this for firewire devices like external drives and DV cameras. Technicall Windows treats it as a network device but it's rarely used that way. You can't use it rto connect to the Internet.

I am willing to be the NIC (Network Interface card) is actually a 10/100 Mbit card unless the computer is very old (and if she has a 1394 port I doubt it's THAT old). More than likely what you're seeing is the speed that the NIC is connecting at.

If the NIC is directly connected to a cable modem or a DSL modem then it will only show up as a 10Mbit connection because that's the port speed of a modem. Modems don't have to be any faster than that - your fastest standard DSL and cable Internet connection (unless you're paying for premium commercial bandwidth) is no faster than 4Mbit, so you're not even using all the available bandwidth of the 10Mbit connection. It's in no way slowing you down.

Even a T1 connection is no faster than that.

If she's on a network connected to a router shared with other computers and sharing files or a printers with other people then you DO want a faster 100 Mbit connection if possible - especially if she shares large files or print large print jobs over the network, but I suspect that's not the case.

Easy enough to find out what the max speed of the network card is. Look up the model of the card in the Device Manager and then do a google search for that model. It'll either be a 10 or a 10/100. On newer and pricier systems it may be a 1Gbit card (10/100/1000).

Hope this clarifies things...

 

[imported_Werdna]

Thanks it helped alot, i know a few things in the computer world but i still have alot of areas to improve. Thanks