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02-10-2004, 08:12 PM
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What is the point of dual nics?
I am thinking of building my own server. I was lookin at server motherboards and 1 of the motherboads had dual nics. Im am ganna run a gaming server (counter-strike) I have a dsl internet conection. My dsl runs through ethernet cords would the pc be faster if i had dual nics?
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02-10-2004, 09:58 PM
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No,
Your DSL connection runs much slower then your NIC. There are uses for multiple nics in some servers, depends on what you are doing. Example, I had a cable connection run to NIC 1 on a PC, used a proxy server to share the connection out with a second NIC to a switch then to my network. |
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02-11-2004, 07:19 PM
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For a server, dual NICs allow you to double the network bandwidth to the server. A server routinely has many connections at one time, multiple NICs eliminate a bottleneck at the network interface.
The DSL won't be helped by dual NICs, since the DSL throughput is much slower than a single NIC. |
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02-11-2004, 08:04 PM
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oh so like oc and connection like that are better than the nics?
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