1gb Fiber internet to one ethernet and out the other to a router

stealthrt

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Hey all I am wondering if there were any way to bring in my FTTH ethernet cable to one of my ethernet jacks on my motherboard and use the motherboards 2nd ethernet jack as an out that goes into the router.

Reason being is that the router currently does not have any gigabyte ethernet ports (WAN/LANs) and since I am getting the 1gb up/down connection then I would like to do this so that I can skip purchasing a new router and also have full speed of the fiber ethernet cable into the computer motherboard.

The motherboard has 2 ethernet jacks that are 10/100/1000 so it will handle the connection just fine. I plan on running Windows server 2016.

How would I do this?
 
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You want to run ICS but it will be easier to load a linux router image if this is a dedicated machine.

Still what you are doing is converting a expensive pc into a cheap router. You can not actually use the PC for much because it will greatly affect the traffic passing though the pc to other device. If for example you would load a application that spikes the cpu usage you could drop session on machines passing though.

When you can get a new router for $50 that has gig port is it really worth the hassle
You want to run ICS but it will be easier to load a linux router image if this is a dedicated machine.

Still what you are doing is converting a expensive pc into a cheap router. You can not actually use the PC for much because it will greatly affect the traffic passing though the pc to other device. If for example you would load a application that spikes the cpu usage you could drop session on machines passing though.

When you can get a new router for $50 that has gig port is it really worth the hassle
 
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