Gigabit lan port on A7N8X-E deluxe and faster cable connection?

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Dave

Hi,
Newbie question: Will running my cable modem into the Gigabit
lan port on my new A7N8X-E deluxe instead of into my current 10/100
fast ethernet card give me a faster connection?

Thanks
Dave
N1RPM
Livermore Falls, Maine
 
umm..............................
no.
cable is less than 3 mb/second which isnt even enough to work a 10 mb/second
connection let alone a 1000 mb/s lan connection.
 
Well, it may give him better ping times, but if your asking if your going to
'download' any faster, then no.
 
just wondering how it would improve his ping?

I don't think it would affect it at all.
please clarify

thanks
 
Well, theoretically, playing a higher cpu usage game or stuff
with the onboard not routing traffic between the north/south bridge
via the PCI bus.

With Intel CSA-based Gigabit LAN controller, network data can be transferred
at a much higher rate with lower latency. This new interface performs
networking tasks more efficiently, and achieves bi-directional gigabit
speeds.

Less latency = improved ping.
 
so he could theoretically reduce latency...
but only on his local bus, so overall improvement would be marginal at best?
 
Very marginal, unless of course he had a whole bunch of them wired up with
gigabit links, raid arrays and turned it into a beowolf cluster or
something..... hehee
 
Thanks for the the quick and courteous response to my question. I
guess seeing that I have 3 options: Kingston 10/100 card, OnBoard Lan
of the A7N8X-E, and the Gigabit Lan, one being marginally better that
the other two, I'll go with the margin. At my age I need all the speed
I can muster, hehe
 
I have found the onboard Nvidia NIC to be very fast and efficient., with
little cpu utilization.
 
Actually, cable is capable of a lot more. I used to get road runner
at about 8Mb/sec to their local file server. Yeah it was early in the
morning ;) I moved and use DSL now. 1.5Mb/sec but better service by
far, no fluctuations. Anyway, I recall they said their cable system
(up to the house) was capable of about 30 Mb/sec, but the cablemodem
box was only capable of 10Mb/sec, a bottleneck. Not that they wanted
to give everyone 30Mb/sec ;)

Hell, even my DSL ISP will give you 6Mb/sec if you want to pay for it.

Still, a 100M net work card would be all you'd need.
 
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