Radioactive Frog 0 Posted January 24, 2004 a short time ago i rebuilt my computer with a new motherboard. when putting it back together without thinking that there was already a NIC onboard ! So as it is in there i was wondering if there was anyway i could use it? my puter is running xp on a home network that is sharing broadband, oh and i am about 2mtrs away from the switching hub so running another cable is certainly not a prob ! any suggestions and how to's would be much appreciated thanks all Share this post Link to post
Tomay 0 Posted January 24, 2004 You could bridge the connections but broadband uses only a fraction of the nic's bandwith so I doubt it would change anything. Share this post Link to post
jmmijo 1 Posted January 24, 2004 What I use my two NIC's for is one has a static IP dedicated to my FTP server connections and the other is grabbing an IP via DHCP on my firewall. The only reason I do this is so I can more easily monitor packets on the dedicated NIC for the FTP traffic, nothing more. It really isnt making any difference in my overall speed Share this post Link to post
Radioactive Frog 0 Posted January 25, 2004 well i am getting the impression there is not really any point for me then !! oh well it was just a thought!! thanks all for replies !! RF Share this post Link to post
Mr.Guvernment 0 Posted January 26, 2004 nope - no reason at all if your not running some massive file server or something that is maxing out your NIC's bandwidth. Share this post Link to post
Radioactive Frog 0 Posted January 26, 2004 great thanks anyway! I was just thinking if there was a use for it but didnt know so i thought id ask the proffessionals ! Guess i will pull it out then ! Share this post Link to post
