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Performnce hit from LAN

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StraightPipe

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I'm running 2 LAN's in my house, we are all on DSL and we use a linksys router to split it between 3 PC's and one MAC (os9).
My main PC (winXP) has 2 NIC's. It's on the first LAN and I have another LAN that runs to my older PC(win 98se) Both LANs are "bridged"

I use the older PC for word processing and donwlaoding w/ kazaa (the evil demon)

I'm wondering what kind of perfomance hit I can expect to recieve on the new PC because of the downloaning on the old PC.

obviously i'm going to use up bandwidth with the old one, but I'm wondering if the transfering of files from 1 NIC to the other NIC in the new PC will slow the new PC they are PCI, but do they have to go thru the bus? does that slow me? should I worry about it?

I have the option of booting a roomate off of the router and making one of them run dual NIC's but I think it would have to be the MAC with dual NIC's and a win 98 laptop runnig through the mac (if thats even possible, I know the extra NIC works for PC and MAC, but havent tried conniection sharing thruogh a mac)
another conflict there is that the laptop wants to be able to file share w/ both of my PC's (old & new)
 
There shouldn't be too drastic of a hit, but there will be a small decrease in overall performance of the dual NIC system.

If it bothers you that much why not connect everything to the router? If the router's full get a cheap switch.
 
It doesnt bother me, I'm just curious/greedy

I still might change it so both my PC's are on the router.

I think the dual nic and the PC connected through it will get the short end of the bandwidth stick though, right?

If the laptop is connected through the mac(with dual NIC's) will it still be able to fileshare accross the LAN?(my current setup allows me to bridge the 2 networks to allow it, but XP is making the bridge)
 
Yes, dual NICs will give you less overall performance versus going straight into your router.

Dual NICs in a Mac one going to the XP box, will the XP box see shares?

Can the Mac see the shares? If so I imagine the XP box will too. If it doesn't I don't know. It probably will though. If you can bridge everything together right.
 
right now the XP has 2 NIC's, with a 98 on the second card.

what I'm proposing is that I put the second NIC in the MAc and put a laptop on it. all PC's will need to share, and the mac cannot currntly share (os 9). I would like it to, but i think I need samba.

i really dont know shtt about mac's.

I'm wonding if the laptop will be able to share through the mac? (even though the mac cannot share)

or if there is ANY free software that would let the mac share to that would solve the problem
 
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