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wasp88
join:2002-09-20
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wasp88

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Extreme 100 and dual LAN card

I have a Gigabyte board with a Smart Dual LAN card. When I had 30/5 service, I could get 60/5 by using both sockets. Now, I receive 110/5 with either one or both sockets. Am I just ignorant to assume the dual LAN would push me to 150-175/5 with the X100 service? Do I need to swap out Cat-5 for Cat-7 cable?

DocDrew
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With 30/5 you probably had Powerboost. TWC dropped that when they started going to higher tiers. Nothing you do will make your speeds higher

djrobx
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What do you mean by "using both sockets"? I assume you have a router of some sort, connecting two network interfaces to one router doesn't accomplish a whole lot, since NAT just combines them back into one interface anyway.

The behavior you're getting now is correct. You might have just been set up on the wrong profile before or something. Are you sure you didn't previously have 50mbps (+ over provisioning?)

With 30/5 you probably had Powerboost. TWC dropped that when they started going to higher tiers. Nothing you do will make your speeds higher

I don't think that was it. TWC stopped doing powerboost with DOCSIS 3.

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Then it may have been the 30/5 tier was upgraded to the 50/5 tier when max was rolled out but that isn't quite right either.... »ir.timewarnercable.com/i ··· ult.aspx

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The dual lan function on your motherboard won't give you any higher speeds. It didn't work that way in the past either, it will give you (if the switch you use supports it) double the bandwidth inside your home, but doesn't increase anything to the outside world.

You can however purchase a router with 2 WAN ports, and combine 2 accounts. You would pay for 2 separate accounts, get 2 modems, and plug a modem into each WAN port. It would then "double"* your speed.

* It would not double your speed of a single download, but it would be able to load balance downloads and internet activity between the two connections.

Some people have cable for their primary internet, and have the cheapest you can find DSL/U-Verse or something like that as a backup in case the first one fails.
wasp88
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Here's how Gigabyte explains it:

"Teaming can be explained with a simple example of connecting two PCs via a LAN cable: without teaming the connection speed is limited to that of one LAN port; with teaming enabled the network bandwidth is effectively doubled to that of two LAN ports, i.e. up to 2 Gbps."

The LAN card has two sockets. I plugged both into the router - ports 1 & 2 - and my 30/5 speed becomes 50/5.

Oh well, I'm just happy to have the 100/5. Looking for 300/20 in March.
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said by wasp88:

Here's how Gigabyte explains it:

"Teaming can be explained with a simple example of connecting two PCs via a LAN cable: without teaming the connection speed is limited to that of one LAN port; with teaming enabled the network bandwidth is effectively doubled to that of two LAN ports, i.e. up to 2 Gbps."

The LAN card has two sockets. I plugged both into the router - ports 1 & 2 - and my 30/5 speed becomes 50/5.

Oh well, I'm just happy to have the 100/5. Looking for 300/20 in March.

Your actual external internet speed is limited by the cable modem speed caps. If you got two modems you could potentially bond them and increase speed.

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said by wasp88:

Here's how Gigabyte explains it:

"Teaming can be explained with a simple example of connecting two PCs via a LAN cable: without teaming the connection speed is limited to that of one LAN port; with teaming enabled the network bandwidth is effectively doubled to that of two LAN ports, i.e. up to 2 Gbps."

The LAN card has two sockets. I plugged both into the router - ports 1 & 2 - and my 30/5 speed becomes 50/5.

Oh well, I'm just happy to have the 100/5. Looking for 300/20 in March.

Like I said, within your LAN, that can work just fine. I have configured servers with 4 NIC's that way to combine a speed of 4 Gbit/s to serve users within an office building faster.

That has nothing to do with your internet capabilities however, those are determined by, and only by your modem.