• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

What is dual Gigabit Lan for?

J

jrphoenix

Golden Member
If you can't see signatures, my mobo is a Gigabyte K8NSNXP NF3-250. It has a Marvell gigabit ethernet connector & the Nforce gigabit ethernet connector. What is the point of having 2? Is there any functionality?

I was thinking I could run my laptop off the gigabit lan (other port) when I bring it home but, I don't think that will work?
 
Most often when something has 2 network ports its for redundancy, or for setting up some sort of server (router, dhcp, etc etc), but i'm not sure what they were going for in a end user targeted board. I did read somwhere that this board has a seperate gigabit controller from the 10/100 controller though, so maybe 1 connector is 10/100 only, and the other is gigabit.
 
I use dual network ports to conenct to two seperate networks. One that connects to the internet and another to a seperate machine via crossover cable, it saves me buying a new hub or rewiring the entire house.
 
Some have one gigabit and one 100 Megabit port, so you can use whichever speed suits your LAN or peripheral (cable modem, DSL modem, etc). Or you could use both, the 100Mb for the modem, and the Gb for the actual LAN (the Gb port probably can operate at 100Mb too).

.bh.
 
Don't forget--you can combine the ports for double duplex mode using a Cisco flux capacitor, and you can have a 2Gb connection at home regardless of which type of broadband connection you have. Using both gigabit ports in tandem won't quite double your down/up speed, but like SLI it will give you a substantial improvement under the right circumstances...I've seen my cable connection peak at 5.2 gigabytes per second from Microsoft's servers. I'm CCNA/CCNP so rest assured I know what I'm talking about. 😉 😀

😛
 
Originally posted by: Imyourzero
Don't forget--you can combine the ports for double duplex mode using a Cisco flux capacitor,
Click to expand...

Yeah, but everytime I say "jigabit", everyone around me starts dancing, which totally negates the throughput advantage, and I have to restart the acceleration sequence, etc.. Eventually of course (um, I'm not sure how to get the tense right here..) going back in time makes the throughput spectacular. 1.44 MB in -100s is what? A lot better than your temporally-limited data transfer, I'll tell you that eventually.
 
I used to use one for my internet gateway and the other for my home network to keep from buying a router. They can come in handy if you get to playing around, or if one gives out.
 
Has anyone tried plugging it into itsself? My Epox 9NPI+ dosent have two, but it would be interesting to see what happens.
 
Originally posted by: Soviet
Has anyone tried plugging it into itsself? My Epox 9NPI+ dosent have two, but it would be interesting to see what happens.
Click to expand...


If you use a short enough cord you get a convienient carrying handle 🙂


 
Here's another one: To trick you into using the slow port by mistake.

My Tyan MB has 2 Broadcom NICs, and they're supposed to be identical, both PCIe x1, etc., and yet, NIC 2 is 10 MB/s faster than NIC 1!!!! D'oh, tricked me!
 
I should have bought a motherboard with dual ethernet ports. Now I'm going to end up installing a pci network card just for the same functionality. One connection is for internet. The other one is goes to my wireless router to share and remote desktop my laptop.
 
I love me dual lan. I got my Xbox hooked up to it, as well as have friends come over and lan through it. And I never needed to spend money or hassle over a router.
 
setup two wireless networks with different IP codes which send different password encoded signals to different machines while having one host computer, thus without the need of two host computers when two brances need to connect to one, especially when you need to split up access between two different completely different domains, for example.

a network is like a tree that has a lot of ports that don't connect to each other unless you tell them to - once it comes to wireless networking, it becomes even more complex.

studying wired networks is essential to understanding the wireless realm, because the math/concepts involved just gets harder and harder.
 
I use my dual alot since there is only one ethernet port in the room where my comp is. When working on a friend's comp I plug their comp in my other port and bridge my two ports. Bingo, I now have made my comp a 2 port hub.
 
Originally posted by: eLiu
connect multiple computers together? like a daisy-chain... i guess useful in specifc settings
Click to expand...


That would only work if you had each computer setup as a router. Otherwise each computer would only be able to access the next directly attached computer.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top