whats the point of having 2 Ethernet ports?

[DominicNikon]

whats the point of having 2 Ethernet ports on the asus x99 deluxe? 

[Ghostay]

whats the point of having 2 Ethernet ports on the asus x99 deluxe? 

Twice the speed.

I may be lying.

[iamdarkyoshi]

Double the data transfer in teaming mode, or you can make your PC into a "router"

[DaltonM]

If one can output... LAN! 

[itsmyjobtoknow]

Well I have a single idea...

 

Virtual Machines...so that way you can assign separate ports to each machine. 

[Codymm03]

Mainly for twice the speed for lans and you can have 2 modems hooked up to your computer.

[DominicNikon]

Double the data transfer in teaming mode, or you can make your PC into a "router"

so you can have 1 line going down and 1 line going up?

[Oshino Shinobu]

It can be used for link aggregation, which gives (theoretically) double the bandwidth of a single port, as well as providing redundancy in the event a port fails. It can also be configured to have it act as a pass through. 

[thekeemo]

Teaming

[iamdarkyoshi]

so you can have 1 line going down and 1 line going up?

From what I have seen it used for, both ports connected to a gigabit switch and the high speed NAS connected to the switch with multiple ports, and the PC was used for video editing, and it greatly helped the speeds

[Oshino Shinobu]

Twice the speed.

I may be lying.

 

 

Mainly for twice the speed for lans and you can have 2 modems hooked up to your computer.

Somewhat pedantic, but it would increase bandwidth, not speed. They can be used synonymously in some cases, but they are still different things in terms of networking. 

[Joegeddon]

I think you can hook one into your router then another into a home network or a NAS directly (Kinda just making it an AS)

[Ghostay]

Somewhat pedantic, but it would increase bandwidth, not speed. They can be used synonymously in some cases, but they are still different things in terms of networking. 

I was joking,didn't know a thing about Ethernets and internet.

[MarcoR]

Teaming, mostly. 

 

Having 2 ports can let me saturate the connection for most NAS/server setups AND let me make use of anything that is SSD based over ethernet. 

[NumLock21]

What others said, and it's a deluxe board, so it needs to have extra stuffs to justify it's price. Who dumb enough to pay more for less features. :rolleyes:

I get boards with 2 lans for backup purposes, just in case one of the ports fails. The other is, one for internet and the other for internal network, for sharing files.

2 lan ports is meh.

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