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In message <db4903feffb8bdd2e96feb9bd2f6656e@news.meganetnews.com>, P
<PPalis@comcast.net> writes
>Can someone explain to me the advantage and/or necessity of a dual gigabit
>lan connection on the new Asus p5AD2 board? Thanks!
>
>
I think you have to qualify the question with a specific scenario first.
However, for a brief answer, I doubt if the vast majority of people
would ever use both LAN ports and especially at gigabit speeds.
But...... it could allow you to say connect two fast home PCs directly
together with a crossover cable for a gigabit link, then the second
port of one machine could go to your internet DSL modem and/or your
normal 10/100 network. Saves a gigabit switch. I'd have certainly used
this scenario myself at home if our two main machines had dual gigabit
ports.
Or ..... for a server in a larger environment - in my work for example,
it would be very useful to have a gigabit link from a P5AD2 serving a
localised gigabit LAN with a large amount of multimedia based content
flying around, but as this LAN itself connects into a larger network and
a very fast pipe to a WAN, a separate gigabit link into this would help
the data flow. You can usually achieve the same with switches and
routers, but a good quality Cisco setup is going to run into thousands
and as building a dual channel onto a motherboard is going to cost
practically nothing extra...... why not ??? .... for a server anyway.
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