More and more you hear or read about the 1GB Network (PCI)Adapter.Has anybody used one or is using one and is it worth the Extra Money for the extra Speed? I am on Verizon FiOS. Thanks.

I talked to an expert and he told me it wouldn't improve my network communication speed. This was after I asked him to recommend one of his companies 1gb router/modems to speed up my LAN. I guess the only ones it helps are huge company LAN/WANs with many users. It definitely wouldn't help your online speed.

I am not sure what download speed your ISP is providing, but at most it would be 10 mbps. Your current network adapter is probably a 10/100 mbps. So you see your current adapter is already up to the task. So to answer your question, a Gigabyte network adapter isn't going to increase you connection speeds at all.

Well, I "mostly" agree with OtheHill. "Most" ISPs are only going to provide 10Mb or less speed to residential customers - but htere are some services that do provide much more. But those are in very limited markets. Even so, a 100Mb adapter is more than sufficient. The only benefit that a 1000Mb adapter would provide is for internal network speeds, i.e. transferring between PCs on your home network. But, to do that requires Gigabit cards on each PC as well as a Gigabit switch and/or router. Michael J

"With FiOS, you have the choice of several packages to meet your needs. We offer downstream connection speeds (the speed that data is transmitted to your computer) ranging from up to 10 Mbps all the way up to 50 Mbps. We offer upstream speeds up to 20 Mbps in some locations." Don't see anything above a standard 100m nic. Why go 10 times over that? It will most likely slow down your system. There is a lot of chatter that takes up cpu time. The only card that would help would be a server grade card. They offload a lot of cpu tasks and do speed up connection times. They are expensive too. Most start above $100. I use them on dsl and notice the improvement in overall computer speeds. "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, are in my top 10

Don't see anything above a standard 100m nic. Why go 10 times over that? Well, that because you are not this 75 year old grandmother with a 40 Gigabits per second connection! http://www.thelocal.se/7869/20070712/ It's fast enough that she could "...enjoy 1,500 high definition HDTV channels simultaneously". But the rest of us are just mere mortals and must trudge along at a snail's pace copared to that. Michael J