Advantage of Dual Ethernet?

[CommodoreRed]

Looking at mobos. Some come with 2 cards, others one. One should be enough for most users, I dont LAN, just use cable modem hooked up to a router (network) and play mulitplay games and obviously the internet =) Just wondering if worth getting a 2nd NIC or mobo with 2 or one should suffice.

 

[Tarrant64]

A 2nd nic could be useful when you want to connect one PC to another for let's say file sharing. Then again you should be able to do that over a router as well.

Now, your subject heading says dual Ethernet. Unless you had 2 IP's and a router that supported two ethernet lines,then the advantage to that would be a redundancy. Kind of a backup internet line in case one goes down. That's probably not what you were thinking, but that's just what I saw when reading the header.

 

[JackMDS]

If you have one computer and or LAN there is No Use, No advantage, and it is Not needed.

You better of disabling it and save the IRQ that its take.

:sun:

 

[RebateMonger]

Dual Ethernet ports are also used on Servers, where the Server is used as a router.

 

[CommodoreRed]

Dual LAN if look more recent mobos, nforce4 perhaps I falted in title of topic, dual gigabyte LAN (they are ethernet NIC and ports) just name nvidia gives them. So should all pertain still and thanks =)