MOBO Dual GB Lan???

[sweetalice79]

i knoticed some boards like the ega use dual GB lan. why would you need 2??? i never under stood this but am curious some examples are the EVGA X58 FTW3, the MSI Big Bang-XPower, & the ECS P55H-AK. as wher the ASUS Rampage III Extreme dont???

Alice

 

[alienware]

Because if you have two and another PC has two you link them and they go faster.

So for example in our computers at work we used to use two 10/100 cards for a 200 network.

 

[sweetalice79]

ahh okie wll i have 2 pc but 1 is a prebuilt hp m980n so not good for gaming

 

[equk]

Not much point in having 2 gb nic's if you're mainly browsing the net behind a ADSL/Cable bottleneck.

Can be nice to have 2 gb nic's if you are building a server/router/firewall etc but can't see much point clientside.

Bridging adapters is also a bit of a waste unless you're streaming loads of data across a LAN.

 

[sweetalice79]

i was thinking it dint make sense all i could figure was connecting multiple pc's

Alice

 

[djmorgan]

If one breaks you have a spare

 

[yggdrasil]

If one breaks you have a spare

This is probably the only good reason, I use it to be on 2 different networks at once (one my home connection and the other being a long distance wifi connection between a mates place) I use 2 so the second network doesn't use my personal internet.

Its also used for fault tolerance and things like that.

Todays hard drives don't even transfer fast enough for one GB connection let alone 2, I was reading a article about it and they even tried maxing out the GB connection with a RAM drive, A real RAM drive that stores the data on RAM (It's fast but as soon as it loses power it loses the info but was fine for this test)

So was [RAM Drive >> GB Network >> RAM Drive] and still didn't reach the theoretical speed of GB LAN I forget what the figures are tho.