Networking Question

[rokar]

I have 2 gigabit ports on my motherboard. How do i get them both to connect at 1 Gps? When I have both plugged in 1 connect at 1 Gps, the other at 100Mps. Thanks for any help.

 

[sdotbrucato]

What are you trying to accomplish using both NICs?

 

[rokar]

just wanted to help speed up media going across my network

 

[PhoTuGo]

If you have a manged switch you can trunk those two gig ports

 

[InvisiBill]

NIC teaming software on the PC can do it too (or is also necessary?).

If you don't do any special setup and just plug in both NICs on a regular Windows box, it'll just use whichever one connected last, and ignore the other one.

 

[epimetheus]

You have to have a switch that supports teaming/trunks, NICs that actually support teaming, and the appropriate driver software. The switch doesn't necessarily have to be managed, most of the "smart" switches available now support teaming.

 

[epimetheus]

OP, do you have RAID arrays or SSD's on the computers you are transferring between? Or, do you have multiple simultaneous connections to a single computer (i.e. multiple streams from a server of sorts)? My point being that most single hard drives can't saturate a single gigabit connection's 125MB/s theoretical max. So, unless you have one of the scenarios I mentioned above, or something else where the source and destination can both exceed 125MB/s, then teaming is really pointless.

 

[rokar]

no raid or ssd. just wanted to use the other port something. Thanks for all info. Would I be able to NAS to other port? Or any thoughts on what I could use it for?

 

[epimetheus]

I'm not sure what you could use the other port for that would be of any use. Not sure what you mean by "NAS to other port". Network Attached Storage is generally a dedicated device.