dual lan motherboards

[zigzag03]

I left this post in the Networking forum, but perhaps it belongs here, so here it is:

I'm not sure if this belongs here or in the motherboard section, but I'll start here. Motherboards with dual lan connections used to be hot a while back because, at least with nvidia chipsets, there was a pairing or teaming feature that was supposed to take advantage of the two pipes to increase the bandwidth coming from the router. Now whether my 10 gig dsl service and modem can actually supply enough to make a difference is certainly a factor, but when I see dual lan mobos they don't seem to talk about the teaming feature anymore. Many of the higher end boards only use a single connection. Does anyone have any knowledge or thoughts on this subject when considering the latest z97 generation mobos? thanks zz03

 

[crashtech]

I thought 10Gb/s was in the realm of fiber, not DSL. I don't think there are many Internet connections that can saturate gigabit Ethernet. G.fast is supposed to get close, in theory.

 

[zigzag03]

it's meg not gig of course my bad sorry

 

[crashtech]

Seems to remember when boards had 100Base-TX ports they could be a restriction to some fat pipe internet connections, but with gigabit LAN that is pretty much a non-issue.