how fast is fast ethernet?
<answer> Ethernet standards-100 Mbit/s and original Ethernet speed-10 Mbit/s. <context> Intel PRO/100 Fast Ethernet NIC, a PCI card. In computer networking, Fast Ethernet is a collective term for a number of Ethernet standards that carry traffic at the nominal rate of 100 Mbit/s (the original Ethernet speed was 10 Mbit/s). Of the Fast Ethernet standards, 100BASE-TX is by far the most common.