2 network cards?

#1 Radioactive Frog

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Posted 24 January 2004 - 05:32 PM

a short time ago i rebuilt my computer with a new motherboard. when putting it back together without thinking that there was already a NIC onboard !

So as it is in there i was wondering if there was anyway i could use it? my puter is running xp on a home network that is sharing broadband, oh and i am about 2mtrs away from the switching hub so running another cable is certainly not a prob !

any suggestions and how to's would be much appreciated

thanks all

#2 Tomay

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Posted 24 January 2004 - 06:58 PM

You could bridge the connections but broadband uses only a fraction of the nic's bandwith so I doubt it would change anything.

#3 jmmijo

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Posted 24 January 2004 - 11:50 PM

What I use my two NIC's for is one has a static IP dedicated to my FTP server connections and the other is grabbing an IP via DHCP on my firewall.

The only reason I do this is so I can more easily monitor packets on the dedicated NIC for the FTP traffic, nothing more. It really isnt making any difference in my overall speed

#4 Radioactive Frog

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Posted 26 January 2004 - 01:44 AM

well i am getting the impression there is not really any point for me then !! oh well it was just a thought!!

thanks all for replies !!

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#5 Mr.Guvernment

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Posted 26 January 2004 - 03:04 AM

nope - no reason at all if your not running some massive file server or something that is maxing out your NIC's bandwidth.

#6 Radioactive Frog

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Posted 26 January 2004 - 10:37 AM

great thanks anyway! I was just thinking if there was a use for it but didnt know so i thought id ask the proffessionals !

Guess i will pull it out then !