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Asus A7N8X Delux has 2 Ethernet Ports, why ?

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ahmedaf

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Is there any specific reason or advantage to having 2 network card built into my Asus A7N8X delux motherboard ?One is nvidia and i believe the other is 3com.

Can i perhaps connect two network connections to it and speed up my overall connection ?
 
It's a feature that the MCP-T along with the 3com controller has. I suppose a good use is to bypass hubs/switchese and allow many computers at a lanparty to be hooked up easily. As for speeding the connection, if you're online, the limit is going to be the net (~1.5Mb for cable vs. 100Mb for network).
 
Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
It has two because the nVidia is only 100mbit and they wanted to include 1000mbit so they added the 3com.
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They're both 10/100mbit. It can be used for plenty of things. Proxy, router, firewall, dual internet connections, peer-to-peer network. Most people find a secondary LAN port useless, and for most people it is. A few of us can make use of it though. I don't have that board though. I currently have 2 gigabit NICs + 1 10/100mbit card in my system. I ghetto-rigged a gigabit LAN at home via x-over cat5.
 
MCP-T = Media and communications processor turbo. It's the southbridge chip on your board, ahmedaf, and it has a lot of features (hence the Turbo part of its name).
 
It's one of several things on my A7N8X Deluxe that I don't use, but are there in case I ever need them. And since it was all on the mobo it came cheaply. If you add a PCI lan card you can do even more than some have mentioned, I think.
 
Asus is just following instructions from Nvidia when it comes to high-end nForce2 motherboards. From Nvidia's site:

DualNet® technology: The NVIDIA nForce2 MCP-T integrates support for an NVIDIA Ethernet MAC and for a 3Com® Ethernet MAC?allowing a PC to serve as a home gateway, managing traffic between two separate networks and ensuring rapid transfer of data from WAN to LAN without any added arbitration or latency. The NVIDIA nForce2 Platform Processors are the only processors to include this dual design, marking another first for the PC industry.
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I have a tulip PCI card that allows me to to operate 4 ethernet ports. I remember at a few lans past I was able to bridge them together and get them to register with WinXP Pro as a dynamic 400megabit, 4 IP adress holding ethernet connection. I can't seem to replicate that on the local network here though... oh well...
 
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