Thread: Would a NIC be better than onboard ethernet ?
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Old 10-05-2009, 21:53   #10
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Re: Would a NIC be better than onboard ethernet ?
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Originally Posted by Druchii View Post
I have 3 NIC's in my machine, one is onboard 1Gbps connected to another machine via crossover at 1Gbps link speed.
The other two, well, 10/100, one is not used and one is used for connected to the internet.
I can drag files down on both NIC's at roughly the same speed when connected to the other machine... I wouldn't say there's that much of a difference really.
It's not the speed, its the CPU utilization for a given level of throughput and as I said it's only some chipsets that aren't good for it.

Generally you probably wouldn't notice it in a desktop environment but you might on a firewall box.

At 1Gbit I find it's usually the drives that bottleneck before anything else.
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