How does Dual LAN on mobo work (DFI)

[phenix29152]

Hey guys im wondering how does it and what it does. you know the DUAL Lan on back of the nf4 mobos..

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136152

"Dual 10/100/1000Mbps"

like i have a normal G router.. lets say i take 2 cat5e cables and connect them to it will i get double the speed?

[mcoleg]

no man, it's either for 2 connections or you could use your pc as a router if didn't have one...

[phenix29152]

no man, it's either for 2 connections or you could use your pc as a router if didn't have one...

so you mean that 2 connections = 2 diff lans?

also what would happen if from my 4 port router i wired the first and second port and plugged them into the mobo?

[mils128]

you would have 2 Simaltaneous 10/10/1000 connections, getting 2 diffrent ip address' from the DHCP, they are 2 Ethernet Controllers, usual a Marvell Controller and the NVIDIA one built into NF4. It won't combine the Connections nor give you extra bandwidth

[mcoleg]

yep, what mils said.

[WheaT]

I have a question though, could you say assign one to download a program or something, and have the other one for playing games? So i could download and play games, and not get any lag?

WheaT

[mcoleg]

even with 2 internet connections it's a tricky stuff...
you could team the connections but i found it doesn't give you any advantage over a single one as far as spreading the load.

[WheaT]

Well if i could figure a way to do that i would love it. I guess that was my little internal hope when i bought the Mobo that i am going to use.

[mcoleg]

i gave up on that :P. the latency on one of my connections is better than the other one so it's preferable for gaming and i couldn't figure out a way to assign the connections to specific tasks... if you figure it out, let us know, that would be great.

[Xenocide]

it does nothing, your lan connection is way faster than your internet connection, and probabbly faster than your harddrive too...