2 nics - broadband connection (without router) and nic for the lan On Friday 22 February 2002 09:41, you were heard blurting out: > You're exactly correct. I do backups on my home lan here and it takes a > goodly time to move 1-2G even at 100Mbps. That said, my question regards a > server I'm building for a small business client and the fact that 3Com > costs 3x LinkSys ($15 vs $45US) doesn't matter much. > > 99% of the network gear I buy is LinkSys. The stuff just works and cheap > too. > > When is it worthwhile to put 2 NICs in a server? I hadn't considered that > for this (small) server. > > Bill Day wrote: > > My question, to that outside world unless you really have some huge pipe > > coming in (cable/dsl dont come close) then a 10Mb card should be ample. > > Inside your LAN 100Mbit cards are excellent especailly for head to head > > gaming etc. But as soon as you point that card toward the internet, via > > your gateway its not going to matter in the slightest, because you > > internet cant even begin to use the 10Mbit card. > > > > With all that said just slap a couple of PCI nics in the server (3Com for > > my recommends- you will get what you pay for with cheap nics) > > and run them.
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