Gigabit Ethernet cards

[Ossama]

Can I link 2 Gigabit Ethernet cards to duplicate internet speed?



As DSL for LAN

[tyle6]

You may help you PING times but unless you are running dual DSL connects your always going to limited by your DSL speed. Dont worry about dual gigabit connects unless you have another computer on the network you are going to be transfering to with the same set-up and a router thaty supports it.

[MtDew]

I don't think it will help unless you have a blazing fast ISP. I have a cable modem (Charter 3MB) and I am just barely faster throughput with a 100MB NIC in comparison to a 10MB NIC.

[PP Mguire]

All incoming lines use 10/100 anyways. Gigabit wont help at all.

[srpeters18]

Gigabit only helps within your network. If you've got all gigabit equipment in your home/office, all your file transfers or streaming media (from one computer to the other, not over the internet) will be fast. The 780i mobo actually comes with 2 gigabit ethernet ports on it, and you can team them but I don't have a gigabit router, or any other equipment that supports it, so it doesn't do any good at all.

[PP Mguire]

I have Gigabit in everything except the laptops here and the only difference it makes it for file transfers. They are alot faster and with dedicated servers for games on LAN. It wont help internet at all.

[Ossama]

Yes dear tyle6 (http://www.bjorn3d.com/forum/member.php?u=6189) And everyone give me happiness by replying ...
Yes ; I am running dual DSL connections

[PP Mguire]

Dual gigabit still wont help. The only thing it can do is if you will be running heavy file transfering in the background. It will give you more bandwidth and it wont bottleneck your connections. But to answer your question the DSL connections are still 10/100 so 1000 wont help.

[srpeters18]

But if you have two DSL lines (not just DSL split through a router) you will benefit from a teamed connection, but like PP said it wouldn't matter if it was 10/100/1000. The most you'll see from MOST DSL connections is about 1.5 megabit.