The network card plays a decisive role when connecting to the Internet. Thanks to the presence of this card in our computer we can enter the network at a specific speed. Therefore, it plays a decisive role when it comes to determine speed. Currently we find several types of network cards available. Surely many of you are familiar with these guys.
We can find with a wired or wireless network card to connect to Ethernet or WiFi. Something that happens on a regular basis is that most do not know the real capacity of their card. Although, knowing this is important and is extremely useful to us.
It is a limitation that we must avoid since this prevents us from knowing if certain devices can be used or if we navigate at the maximum speed available. Therefore, it is necessary to know this detail. Thus, we know that we are making the most of our network card. With that in mind, we explain below the steps to follow to configure the network card in Windows 10 so you are at full speed.
As We are going to explain to you it is with an Ethernet network card. Since it is the most common and the one that the absolute majority of computers have.
Gigabit Ethernet network card
Most of today's computers have a Gigabit Ethernet network card. Thanks to these cards they are ready to receive current connection speeds. So all users with a recent computer have such a card. Its use has become very widespread in recent years. Mainly because the Internet speed has increased significantly. Especially with the arrival of the optical fiber.
Since now great speeds have been achieved. In fact, it is expected that soon it will even be possible to reach 1 GB of speed. So, if our network card is configured at maximum speed, when this is possible we can enjoy it. In order to configure this we must have a 10/100/1000 card, which support speeds up to 1GB / s.
Having one of these cards means that we can have up to 100 mb. So it has a huge influence on both the speed with which we browse the Internet and when copying files to a server hard drive. But usually the card is misconfigured. We explain how to configure it correctly below:
Configure network card in Windows 10
The first thing we have to do is know the current state of the configuration. Since this way we can check if the card is really badly configured. Because if this is the situation, then it is when we have to take action on the matter. In order to verify this we have to carry out the following steps:
- Go to the icon of the taskbar
- Locate the icon Internet
- Press on network and internet settings
- Click on Ethernet
- Click change adapter options
- Double click on Ethernet. There, you get the speed, it can be 100 mbps or 1Gbps. If it is the second, we do not have to do anything, but if it is the first we have to configure the card.
If you are one of the users who get 100Mbps, we have to configure the network card. Because this speed means that we are not at full speed. So we are not getting the most out of the card. Luckily changing this is easy. We simply have to configure it to 1Gbps. This is accomplished by taking the following steps:
- In the window where the speed was indicated, you have to click on properties
- Check that the option Microsoft network clients is marked, if not, do it
- Click on set up
- We go to Advanced Options
- Search Speed āā& Duplex
- Change the value to 1.0 Gbps Full Duplex
- Accept
By doing this the process would already be finished. Have you configure your network card appropriately, so now we are getting the most out of it.