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Two cat-5's from 1 PC

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by caseyejreynolds

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Out of sheer curiosity, would using two NIC connections to my LAN from 1 PC double my bandwidth?

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by isys

No. Each would have its own IP and MAC address, and they are not aggregated.

by choppit

Yes (potentially). 2 NICs would double your "potential" bandwidth although the OS would need to support this, although I have no idea which OSes do, or even if any of the desktop OSes do. I do however know that some Server OSes can do exactly this.

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