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wxperson
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2009-Jul-8 4:17 pm

Re: [Speed] Much lower speed behind a router

DUH.. stupid me... Thanks.

On a different topic.. does anyone know if 1 PC can have 2 ethernet adapters?

I could really use the faster speeds on this PC but also need to stay networked with the rest of my computers.

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2009-Jul-8 10:15 pm

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Two Ethernet adapters.
said by wxperson:

On a different topic.. does anyone know if 1 PC can have 2 ethernet adapters?
Yes. I have two in this computer. I've only ever tried dual wan connections with one Ethernet and one dial-up connection, though, and you need to understand routing tables. Windows builds its routing table on the last adapter active. So, if I make a dial connection after making the Ethernet LAN connection, the dial modem is the gateway, and will handle the non-local packets. I have tested by manually creating a second route, using the 'route -add' command. But you will need some kind of software management for doing it automatically.
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said by wxperson:

On a different topic.. does anyone know if 1 PC can have 2 ethernet adapters?

Yes you can have multiple/many adapters, both physical and virtual and each can have multiple IP's (no two devices can have the same IP or MAC, within the local segment)
Before you buy a new second NIC, consider a new router... any current" mainstream/name brand" router should support your current (and future) speeds, and may not cost much more if anything.
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yes you can have more than one active adapter in a computer but

you should be sure that only one has a default gateway and that you have routes pointing to the other segment

ie (internet NIC(default gateway), Lan nic(no default gateway but route add command used so it knows how to reach networks on this side))

although if you only have a single subnet on the LAN side (most likely unless in an enterprise) then it should get the route simply by having an interfase configured for the subnet
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2009-Jul-10 4:24 am

I agree with the above posts. You need a router that can handle that throughput.
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