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Purpose of wired adapter?

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June 22, 2013 3:40:08 PM

Why get a wired network adapter if your motherboard has an ethernet port?

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June 22, 2013 3:44:10 PM

Xodom said:
Why get a wired network adapter if your motherboard has an ethernet port?


You don't. Unless you don't know what you're buying.
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June 22, 2013 4:02:11 PM

They are useful for older boards that only support 10/100, and less so for newer systems, however there are some very specific applications which benefit from having additional network ports where you need additional bandwidth available, more than a single gigabit connection can provide, most of the data being accessed would have to live in RAM or Flash memory, if you had a system running several of the PCI-E flash memory cards that needed to get accessed remotely by several machines simultaneously, that could make use of multiple gigabit connections.


For most people a single connection is fine, but there is a reason for having multiple ones.
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June 22, 2013 4:18:13 PM

thank you
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