Performance Analysis of NICs and Its Interactivity with Internet Services

Abstract

This paper analyses the problem of slow data or video streaming on the World Wide Web internet through the network interface cards (NICs). The service of the entire network and internet connectivity largely rest on the installed Network Interface Cards (NICs). The performance of the various NICs such as 10Mbps, 100Mbps, 1,000Mbps and 10,000Mbps were examined using different message data sizes on the network. Also, the paper extensively discusses the performance of 10Gbps Ethernet card such as: data transmission time and throughput. The fact remained that the major backbone of the Internet network is the transmission control protocol (TCP) which is designed for reliable sending of data over the internet. The TCP as the protocol of the NIC is used for browsing web and downloading or uploading files. Additionally, the paper also examines the TCP feedback mechanism that is able to detect loss packets and retransmit them. Also, the TCP is able to dynamically adapt its packet sending rate to the network conditions in order to achieve the highest possible throughput. However, this paper proposes the use of the 10Gbps Ethernet card for the Internet Servers and Workstations for effective and fast internet access in all public networks.

Keywords: Ethernet Card, Transmission Control Protocol, Data transmission time, throughput.