From a reviewer POV, I'm interested if people actually use more than one Gigabit Ethernet, or if it's actually just marketing fluff? I can certainly see the advantage of onboard WiFi, but do people ever use more than one Gigabit socket? Do people even use more than 10/100 at home? Let me know, it'll help just future boards I review
I'm assuming you want the votes based on one computer rather than my entire network? On my rig: gigabit to my server 100mbps to the network wifi for snooping around (copper pipes behind the computer leading to the loft acts as an antenna )
Onboard Ports Gigabit to a switch 10/100 to a printer PCI Cards 54Mb (g) WiFi (used at certain friends' LANs)
Main Rig Dual Ethernet one goes to main network, one goes to the 'download pc' the router uses 54g and aint got any others on wireless yet, most of my other pcs use the onboard 100mpbs adapter as all they do is connect to the net.
10/100 to webserver, fileserver, FSG-3 and my computer. 54G to printer and anything thats not Pre-N enabled. Pre-N to anything thats enabled for it.
So people DO use more than one Ethernet port. That's more than I realised! EDIT to actually MAKE SENSE now.
Just choose 10/100 and 54g wireless because that's what I have atm. I used to also have a gateway/router with 5 NICs in it (WAN, LAN, DMZ, Wireless and mini cluster) but that got ditched.
10/100 to router, that's it for my main rig. Only the laptop uses 802.11G (although I have used its network socket on occasion).
I'd use both my GB ethernets, but we're in rented houses and can't go routing 10/100/1000 cables about, so it's wireless B/G for internets and then 10/100/1000 for transfers that aren't USB2.
10/100 into the house network (all it needs is a gigabit switch, the wiring's already gigabit hardware), 56g on the laptop for school. When it's at home, I drop a router between my PC and the wall and jack the laptop into that.
dual gigabit for each of my 2 sig comps on a 12-port switch. my roommate has a laptop using gigabit (sony vaio docking station) and a 680i desktop I built for him using dual gigabit both on the switch as well.
