Packets? who needs em

[TheoPetro]

alright so im connected through my universities network and i get everywhere online fine and fast and stuff. basically its worken fine. i checked the connect speed and its at 400Mbps. but under packets sent/recieved there both zeros? im kinda confused. can someone explain this one to me in noob terms.

 

[amdskip]

Do you have multiple network adapaters maybe?

 

[TheoPetro]

i honestly dont even know how to answer that question

 

[us3rnotfound]

Originally posted by: TheoPetro
i honestly dont even know how to answer that question

Do you, TheoPetro, own a personal computer that contains more than one (1) network inferface card?

 

[Rogue]

Originally posted by: us3rnotfound

Originally posted by: TheoPetro
i honestly dont even know how to answer that question

Do you, TheoPetro, own a personal computer that contains more than one (1) network inferface card?

The clarify, is this a laptop that may have both a wired network card and a wireless card?

 

[haveblue]

It's most likely a desktop at 400Mbps, 'cause I don't think many laptops have Gigabit ethernet.. maybe I'm behind on the times though.. lol

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: haveblue
It's most likely a desktop at 400Mbps, 'cause I don't think many laptops have Gigabit ethernet.. maybe I'm behind on the times though.. lol

Yes you are, my year old laptop has gigabit ethernet. I think it's pretty standard on everything now.

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: TheoPetro
i honestly dont even know how to answer that question

Go to Control Panel and open Network Connections. Is there more then one icon in that window?

 

[nightowl]

It is probably from your firewire port. It is somehow registering as a connection, bridged possibly?

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: nightowl
It is probably from your firewire port. It is somehow registering as a connection, bridged possibly?

Sounds reasonable, don't see what other kinds of connections would get 400 Mbit.

 

[ktwebb]

Originally posted by: nightowl
It is probably from your firewire port. It is somehow registering as a connection, bridged possibly?

Ding, ding, ding, ding, we have a winner.