Sydney, 12 November 1998 - 11:15 AM NIC (LAN Adapter, LAN Card, Network Interface Unit, Network Adapter, Network Board, etc.) is a network component (generic term). NIC enables the PC to connect and to access a network At one end, the NIC communicates trough drivers with the shell or OS, and with the network (cabling and other nodes) at the other end. Ethernet is a shared media network architecture (IEEE802.3 standard), that is, operates at the lowest layers in the OSI model (physical and data link layers), uses a bus topology, can operate at speed up to 10 Mbps, uses CSMA/CD media access method, broadcast transmission, Manchester encoding, uses 50 ohm coaxial cable (some variants can use 75 ohm cables) or twisted pair and fiber optic cable, and it is a baseband network (some variants support broadband networks). NICs are architecture specific. An Ethernet Card can be used only on an Ethernet network. This means, that you can not use an Ethernet Card on a Token Ring network. Variants of Ethernet Cards are: 10Base5 (thick Ethernet), 10Base2 (thin Ethernet), 10BaseT (twisted pair Ethernet), 10BaseF (fiber optic Ethernet), 10Broad36, and 100Mbps Ethernet. inemes@transylvania.com.au Leonard Ong wrote:

Hello,

Would anyone kindly let me know the different between NIC and Ethernet Card ?

Thank you

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