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

Wide area network

Local area network