Dual LAN?

[Slayher]

Hi, I'm creating a build and I noticed that the motherboard has two Ethernet slots.

I'm seeing people state "Basically you can double your throughput of your LAN connection if your hardware supports"

I'm using an Nighthawk R7000 router, I'm not sure if it supports "double teaming" that I read. Can somebody help me? Would I benefit from connecting two Ethernet cables from my router to this new setup? Let me know, thanks!

[evilarceus]

6 minutes ago, Slayher said:

Hi, I'm creating a build and I noticed that the motherboard has two Ethernet slots.

I'm seeing people state "Basically you can double your throughput of your LAN connection if your hardware supports"

I'm using an Nighthawk R7000 router, I'm not sure if it supports "double teaming" that I read. Can somebody help me? Would I benefit from connecting two Ethernet cables from my router to this new setup? Let me know, thanks!

It doesn't hurt to try for yourself.

[TheKDub]

9 minutes ago, Slayher said:

Hi, I'm creating a build and I noticed that the motherboard has two Ethernet slots.

I'm seeing people state "Basically you can double your throughput of your LAN connection if your hardware supports"

I'm using an Nighthawk R7000 router, I'm not sure if it supports "double teaming" that I read. Can somebody help me? Would I benefit from connecting two Ethernet cables from my router to this new setup? Let me know, thanks!

 

"Double Teaming" has many different names, some people call it "Nic teaming", others call it "Link bundling", but it's really called Link Aggregation.

 

Looks like it should support it.

 

 

Using Link Aggregation will just increase your LOCAL network speed, not your actual connection to the internet.

It's useful if you've got a NAS or such that needs to have fast transfer speeds, that way the connection to it is less of a bottleneck. (assuming that the disks in the NAS and the PC that is utilizing it are able to read/write faster than 1Gb/s or 128MB/s (Which is around what most HDDs are, some range up closer to 200MB/s, others are down below 100MB/s, though SSDs typically are near 500MB/s or faster, so you'd definitely benefit from link aggregation if you've got an SSD NAS and you've got an SSD in your rig with only a 1Gb/s connection)

[Naeaes]

According to this it doesn't support it. But it's a few years old so things may have changed via updates.

What you're looking for is called 'link aggregation'.

[Bgordy2013]

99% of the time link aggregation is not going to help the home user. The only case in which it does is if you have a home server/NAS that you want a faster connection to, the only time I have seen it be worth it is in my media server with multiple clients accessing 1080P streams at the same time + 720P security cams. I would say that it is probably not necessary for you to do but if you are wanting to try it for fun/learning than go for it! Networking is a lot of fun to learn! If you have any more questions about it feel free to ask me!

 

(NOTE: I doubt your router supports LACP or any type of LAG for that matter. You would probably need to purchase a managed switch which are usually upwards of $50 for a cheap 5 port model and $100+ for a good 18-24 port model.)

[NetworkPeet]

also be sure

managing a managed switch sounds easy .

This project would be nice to get some knowledge about that and experimenting stuff.

- but if you dont use any server or other local hosting stuff (NAS/etc) it wont make sense. You also have to know that if you want to copy double speed the other hardware has to have a dual (LACP) channel, too

[NetworkPeet]

Its the same like you have a water pipe to your house which gives you 1liter/sec

But you want a dual waterpipe to your bathtub with 100liter/sec each

[jasonvp]

Most of these folks are correct regarding 802.3ad Ethernet bundling: you need to make sure both ends of the connection support it.  In this case, that's your PC or server, and the network device it's connected to.

 

Assuming you have a server with resources on it, bundling can help if and only if you have multiple possible clients trying to access it simultaneously.  The network device upstream from the server can hash the connections over the aggregated bundle to the server and try to use both links equally (it'll never be 50/50).  However, if you have a single client (eg: a PC) talking to a server, neither end will benefit from a bundle.