Question for the computer people

[IronFist]

Is there a difference between "ethernet" and "gigabit ethernet?"

IronFist

[FatherDog]

'Ethernet' refers to a specific protocol for a local area network. Your college network is probably ethernet; most are.

'Gigabit' is a unit of measure for bandwidth; it's a number of discrete signal pulses transmitted in a second. Each discrete signal pulse is a bit; a gigabit is a billion bits.

So, it's kind of like the difference between 'dialup' and '56k dialup'.

[IronFist]

Thanks. Yeah I just found it on the internet anyway. I have to write a paper on Gigabit Ethernet and I've been slacking off (ie. it's due on Thursday but it was assigned like a month ago) and I've been finding a ton of info about Ethernet but nothing on Gigabit Ethernet until just a few minutes ago. I just wanted to make sure I didn't write it on the wrong topic.

IronFist

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

i was just gonna write, no.

father dog was much more thorough than i got the smarts for.

[Jamesbond_007]

Father Dog gives a good explination. A lot of vendors in the networking industry (Cisco and even the IEEE) when they sayt Ethernet they mean 10BaseT (10 Mbps), they refer 100 Mbps as Fast Ethernet and 1000 Mbps as Gigabit Ethernet.

[GGL]

Dude your hogging my bandwidth!!!.. my fps has gone to shiznich:D