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If a ran ethernet (Gigabit) in to a Windows 7 machine and then bridged it to a second card providing ethernet out to my desktop, would I see a large speed decrease? 

So I guess the question is would the desktop be noticeably slower getting it's network connection shared from a Windows machine compared to straight from the switch. 

Googling just pulls up results about shared wifi which I'm not interested in.

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It all depends on what your doing. Remember if you do this the PC with two connections will need to be on all the time. If you are doing 4k video editing on both you'll have an issue.  But for casual web browsing it will be fine.

 

 

 

 

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Just now, beach_boy98 said:

It all depends on what your doing. Remember if you do this the PC with two connections will need to be on all the time. If you are doing 4k video editing on both you'll have an issue.  But for casual web browsing it will be fine.

Well the one doing the sharing is a microserver so will be on constantly anyway so that's no issue :) 

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