gigabit connection -??

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rbusenbark

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What is needed to connect at the 1000 mbps.

I have a laptop and a fiberoptic connection. Current router is 10/100. I would like to be able to hook up to 8 pc at one time if needed.

I do not want wireless.

What all is needed? (I know i have to get a 8 port router capable of 10/100/1000) but what else is needed?


thanks
 
In order to have a full gigabit network, you would need to have at least Cat 5e cable (Cat 6 is recommended for full duplex 1000base-t), you need the 10/100/1000 router and/or switch, and 1000base-t NIC's.

Most laptops only have 10/100 NIC's, so you may have to buy an add-on card.
 
1000base-t NIC's --- What does that consist of?
As you can tell, I'm not a PC guy. The wife hooked us up from dial up to the fiber optic. and i'm just trying to get my money's worth out of it without paying a fortune.

Right now only 2 laptops that will be connected to it, but i have 3 toddlers that will need a pc each(I'm sure) sometime soon.

thanks for any help again.
 
I can tell you with certainty, that a traditional 10/100 network is not restricting your fiber connection, which probably isn't more then 10-20Mbps.
 
Thats right, a 1 Gig router will transfer data across your network as fast as your NIC card will allow, but the bottleneck is at the fibre modem (quite a freeflowing bottleneck compared to my home connection) but just a 10/100 base router and NIC cards will be fine. 1000 base routers and network cards would be used to transfer at fast rates over a LAN and will have no effect on Web speed.
 
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