Any benefit / drawback for two network card? [two network cards] [cat5]
Q: I have my wireless card is in my laptop all the time. If I were on my desk I have Jack in the Cat5. So now Im connected to my home network twice with two different IPs.
Am I won or lost, any performance by doing this? How does traffic to decide which route to go?
Best Answer: Making a paging file of 10 GB would almost surely slow the computer down.
8GB of ram is a LOT of ram for regular use. I have 2GB in my work machine and don't use a swap file at all. I do a lot of DVD burning, downloading, and browsing all at the same time, constantly, and never have a problem.
With 8GB, I'd start with no swap file, run it for a few days, and see what happens. If it needs more (doubtful) give it more.
The swap file is used when Windows decides it needs to free up physical ram for something else. The down side is the swap file is saved on the hard drive, which is infinitely slower than regular ram. Aside from slow access is the actual "swapping" from RAM to HD and back. This slows things down quite a bit. The smaller the swap file, the less Windows will try to stuff in it, and the faster it is to access it.
Hope that helps,
Jason
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Re:Sorry about the misunderstanding in my previous post.:(
You can configure the Metrics in each Network card.
Put Metrics of 10 in the Wired and Metrics of 20 in the Wireless.
When the Wire is unplugged to would have Wireless connection. When the Wired plug it would take over the connection since it as lower metrics.
1. In Control Panel, double-click Network Connections.
2. Right-click a network interfaces, and then click Properties.
3. Click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and then click Properties.
4. On the General tab, click Advanced.
5. To specify a metric, on the IP Settings tab, click to clear the Automatic metric check box, and then enter the metric that you want in the Interface Metric field.
Look like this. http://www.ezlan.net/network/metrics.jpg
More about this topic here, http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0405.mspx
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Re:if you want home networking with microsoft, you might want to turn off netbios on one of the nics.
Re:I think Jack misunderstood. You have 2 connections to your HOME network, not 2 seperate connections to the INTERNET.
Usually, windows will see higher speed on the wired and prefer that connection. I would't worry about it.
Re:You probably loosing Network's power capacity, the Network can handle only one connection at the time while keeping active two connections.
In order to benefit from this you need a Dual WAN Router.
Combining two Internet Connections – Combining Bandwidth, or and Load Balancing of two Internet connections. (http://www.ezlan.net/loadbalance.html)
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