Got two gigabit ports, will it speed up my internet

Kefwooro73

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Ok , heres my question..........

My board has two gigabit ports , and I was wondering what would happen if I connected them both to my router?

Ive never tryed it , but was wondering if it would increase speed not likely, or does it just use one and the other is idle or whatever? or would it bork up the works ??
 
Kefwooro73 said:
Ok , heres my question..........

My board has two gigabit ports , and I was wondering what would happen if I connected them both to my router?

Ive never tryed it , but was wondering if it would increase speed not likely, or does it just use one and the other is idle or whatever? or would it bork up the works ??
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....What?

I think youre probably in need of a new thread to ask your own question, instead of de-railing an existing one :)

Try the 'New Thread' button in the 'Networks & Internet Connectivity' Forum HERE: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=6

Welcome to the forums, there's some rules knocking around if you get stuck ;)

//TrX
 
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How fast is your internet connection?

How fast is one of those network ports?

Think you can answer this yourself.
 
Kefwooro73 said:
Ok , heres my question..........

My board has two gigabit ports , and I was wondering what would happen if I connected them both to my router?

Ive never tryed it , but was wondering if it would increase speed not likely, or does it just use one and the other is idle or whatever? or would it bork up the works ??
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If your motherboard supports port teaming then you'l get 2Gb/s downloads from the interwebs - good times!!!
 
littledave said:
Im really interested in setting up teaming, however i cannot find any drivers or info for win 7.
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Why not step back for a second and actually tell us WHY you want to do this?

You'd need a 2gig connection to benefit from it. Since there aren't any home connections offering that bandwidth & no university will let you rape 2gigs of their connection it seems UTTERLY pointless. The only real use would be if you have:
2 dual gigabit capable machines (and both machines capable of teaming) and a gigabit router, and even then that'd be transfering files between those machines!

Do you download a lot of imaginary porn on that imaginary 2gig connection of yours?
 
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dangerstat said:
Why not step back for a second and actually tell us WHY you want to do this?

You'd need a 2gig connection to benefit from it. Since there aren't any home connections offering that bandwidth & no university will let you rape 2gigs of their connection it seems UTTERLY pointless. The only real use would be if you have:
2 dual gigabit capable machines (and both machines capable of teaming) and a gigabit router, and even then that'd be transfering files between those machines!

Do you download a lot of imaginary porn on that imaginary 2gig connection of yours?
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Failover.
 
Fault Tollerance
Load Balancing
Fall Over

Its advertised as supporting it so i want to try it out is that ok?

Its got nothing to do with internet connection, more to do with network transfer rates.

Im hoping it will improve transfer rates across the network when im also downloading at full wack 50meg.

I admit this is a bit over kill for my home / student network, but why shouldnt I try it out.

And yes we have 2 machines with dual gigabit ports, another is in the process of being ordered/built. The switch we have is an old school cisco 12 port switch and a virgin supplied router.

Surely not using load balancing is a bit like saying I don't see the point of redundant power supplies or why both mirroring your disks
 
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littledave said:
Its got nothing to do with internet connection
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And that after posting a thread with the title:

"Got two gigabit ports, will it speed up my internet"

You wrote it, not me!

You won't even max out a 10/100 connection let alone dual 10/100/1000 connections! You use redunant PSU as they fall over quite a bit, so I'd say I'd personally had abotu 5 PSUs fail - number of onboard NIC's I've experienced failing zero. I don't think I've even heard of a onboard NIC failing! Even if you wanted a backup option surely a £10 PCI nic makes more sense no?

I go back to your original thread TITLE:
"Got two gigabit ports, will it speed up my internet"

No dual 10/100/1000 will not speed up your internet:p
 
It will offer little real world performance unless you are using multiple SAS/SSD arrays, since your hard drive will not even saturate a 1Gb/s link. You will also need a compatible switch (I assume its a Gb switch too . . . .).

Redundancy on a home PC is pretty much pointless. And anyway, 50mb/s vs 1000mb/s still leaves a LOT of headroom . . . .

(Oh, and I dont care about SI units and all the rest . . . . thats for the rest of you :p)
 
dangerstat said:
And that after posting a thread with the title:

"Got two gigabit ports, will it speed up my internet"

You wrote it, not me!

You won't even max out a 10/100 connection let alone dual 10/100/1000 connections! You use redunant PSU as they fall over quite a bit, so I'd say I'd personally had abotu 5 PSUs fail - number of onboard NIC's I've experienced failing zero. I don't think I've even heard of a onboard NIC failing! Even if you wanted a backup option surely a £10 PCI nic makes more sense no?

I go back to your original thread TITLE:
"Got two gigabit ports, will it speed up my internet"

No dual 10/100/1000 will not speed up your internet:p
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Please stop the attitude dangerstat. FYI I DID NOT WRITE IT.

If you bothered the read the thread properly you would see plain as day that I did not start the thread, Kefwooro73 did.

Maybe if you added some actual help instead of getting all excited at the oppotunity of putting us novices down.

We can all be PC Pros.
 
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Im hoping it will improve transfer rates across the network when im also downloading at full wack 50meg.
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50 Mbps leaves you 950 Mbps for network transfers. Do you have machines stuffed full of SSDs or RAID arrays as anything else isn't capable of maxing out a gigabit LAN.
 
Surely 1Gb/s is about 125MB/s - well under what many disks can transfer in theory.
Now with people having RAID0 setup and fast media / backup servers it makes sense for some people to start teaming NICs.
 
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