jungleland
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What is the purpose of having TWO Ethernet connections on your PC?
Dual LAN?
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saltynay
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for managing two connections for two different networks or two connections for one network
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jungleland
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sorry to sound retarded, but can you please elaborate. Two separate networks? Under what situation (s) would someone have two separate networks? also, what about two connections for one network?
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one application is to use one computer as a router. it has one connection coming in for the internet and another going out to share the connection with other computers.
not sure on the other applications
not sure on the other applications
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ok heres an example of a dual network:
You work for a company in a certain section your department has a main switch for an internal network between the local computers within your section for file sharing. The company has a larger building wide network which provides services like the internet so you need to have both networks working simultaneously.... Maybe you use your computer as an extender for the network so you use a wireless access point connected to the spare ethernet port and your other port is connected to the network
You work for a company in a certain section your department has a main switch for an internal network between the local computers within your section for file sharing. The company has a larger building wide network which provides services like the internet so you need to have both networks working simultaneously.... Maybe you use your computer as an extender for the network so you use a wireless access point connected to the spare ethernet port and your other port is connected to the network
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more of the same.... your talking about servers now it is more a luxury to have multiple lan ports they're not essential except in servers. the average home usage would be a network extender
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There is something called Network Load Ballancing... Or something like that, can't really remember, anyways you can have more than one connection to a network from the same machine, but the advantage of this is so that one connection is busy, your machine and the others on the network will use the 2nd or 3rd and so on or which ever one is least busy, that or it will use multiple ports at the same time to transfer a extremly large file rather quickly. Most homes didn't have a need for networks a long time ago, now most homes have a network, I guess the engineers see that people may want this option later...
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