List of device bandwidths

Here is a list of device bandwidths: the bandwidth of some computer devices employing methods of data transport is listed by MB/s or megabytes per second. Lowest MB/s to highest.

Table of contents

1 Modems 2 Computer peripherals 3 Wireless 4 Wide area network 5 Local area network

Modems

• Modem 28.8k - 0.00375 MB/s
  
• Modem 56.0k - 0.0075 MB/s
  

Computer peripherals

• Serial - 0.02 MB/s
  
• Parallel - 1.0 MB/s
  
• USB 1.1 - 1.5 MB/s
  
• SCSI 1 - 5 MB/s
  
• Fast SCSI 2 - 10 MB/s
  
• Fast Wide SCSI 2 - 20 MB/s
  
• Ultra DMA ATA 33 - 33MB/sec
  
• Ultra Wide SCSI 40 - 40 MB/s
  
• FireWire (IEEE 1394) 50 - 50 MB/s
  
• USB 2.0 - 60 MB/s
  
• Ultra DMA ATA 66 - 66MB/sec
  
• Ultra2 SCSI 80 - 80 MB/s
  
• FireWire (IEEE 1394b) - 100 MB/s
  
• Ultra DMA ATA 100 - 100MB/sec
  
• Ultra DMA ATA 133 - 133MB/sec
  
• PCI - 133MB per second
  
• Ultra 160 SCSI - 160 MB/s
  
• Serial ATA - 150 MByte/s
  
• AGP 1x - 266 MBytes/s
  
• PCI-Express formerly known as 3GIO - 500MB/second
  
• AGP 2x - 532 MBytes/s
  
• PCI 2.2 - 533 MB/s
  
• Ultra640 Scsi - 640 MB/s
  
• Lightning Data TransportTM (LDT): - 800 MB/s
  
• AGP 4x - 1064 MBytes/s
  
• PCIx - 1066 MB/s
  
• InfiniBand - 1.25 GBytes/s
  
• PCI-X DDR - 2133 MB/s
  
• AGP 8x - 2128 MBytes/s
  
• HyperTransport 200 MByte/s per line or full-sized 32-bit bus - 6.400 GByte/s

Wireless

• IrDA-Control - 0.009 MB/s
  
• Bluetooth 1.1 - 0.125 MB/s
  
• 802.11 legacy 0.125 - 0.25 MB/s
  
• 802.11b DSSS 0.125 - 1.375 MB/s
  
• 802.11b+ non-standard DSSS 0.125 - 5.5 MB/s
  
• 802.11a 0.75 - 6.75 MB/s
  
• 802.11g DSSS 0.125 - 6.75 MB/s
  
• Bluetooth 2 - 2 to 12 MB/s
  

Wide area network

• DS1/T1 - 0.1925 MB/s
  
• Frame Relay - .193 MB/s
  
• SDSL - 0.2875 MB/s
  
• ADSL - 0.768 MB/s
  
• DS3/T3 - 5.5925 MB/s
  
• OC1 - 6.48 MB/s
  
• OC3 - 19.44 MB/s
  
• OC12 - 77.76 MB/s
  
• OC48 - 306 MB/s
  
• Fiber Channel - 1000 MB/s
  
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet - 1.28 GB/s
  
• OC192 - 1.250 GB/s
  
• OC255 - 1.65125 GB/s
  
• OC768 - 5 GB/s
  

Local area network

• Thin Ethernet - 1.25 MB/s
• Fast Ethernet - 12.5 MB/s
• Gigabit Ethernet - 128 MB/s