Dual Gigabit Ethernet

[CNUco2007]

What is the point of having dual gigabit ethernet? I noticed the MSI K8N NEO2 Platinum Mobo has it. Are you able to use both for increased performance? If so, do you have to set it up a special way or something?

[p8baller07]

...better for lans... and internet sharing...

 

 

You and are friend are hooked up right? you want to toss in 1 more person... they connect to you and you all are hooked up

[Vampire]

I for one wish I had it. At LANs I get a mere 10mb/sec up and down (100mbps), my hdd's can transfer much faster than that, so I wish I had 200MB/sec bandwidth available to use. I can see where its useful but for the everyday user on a home network its pretty much pointless.

[kanbeki]

yep..its just like having dual gig nics..they're just integrated, nothin special, none the less handy but many reviewers seem to hate dual gigabit and complain but I'd love to have it

[Byron]

Right now, I've got gigabyte connection between my main rig and my folder/file server. It helps alot when transfering, because my hds can send at over 100MB/s, and the gigabyte connection will allow me to do that (giving that my other hds can also) :-P I actually love having gigabyte connection because I transfer a lot of movies and large files between computers, so it reduced wait time a lot.

[CNUco2007]

so, just to make this clear... When u have dual gigabit ethernet ports, you can have a total of 2000Mb/s bandwith? Thats awsome. i guess it only makes sense though as long as u have a network that supports it. How does your computer know which one to use? Can u set one for outgoing connections and one for incoming? j/w I'm going to get this board regaurdless, i'm just curious about this feature.

[MindDrive]

running dual nics at any speed is basicly like using 1 for home networking and one for say if you were to run a internet server off the same computer - it frees up the activity of the 1 card

[LobbDogg]

Also, most games network code is optimized for 100 mbit/second, and you won't really see any real differences in games in terms of going up to a gigabit. However if you transfer files over gigabit, then yes you will see a very very nice speed increase.

[TrOGGlez]

They're only worth it if you run a server or live in a college dorm. Thanks to the magic of DC++, most universities have their own hubs that don't count bandwidth usage. And since its all on the network, you can actually use your gigabit connection speed.

[Sveach]

Also, you can turn a computer into a router...plug your cable/dsl modem into one side, rest of the network into the other, install a linux router distro on it.

[IUMaestro]

at work we've got a rig with 4 NICs in it that works as our router. i could easily set up duela-lan but i don't netowkr at home i only connect directly to my modem... so there isn't much of a point.