Gigabit lan port on A7N8X-E deluxe and faster cable connection?

[Dave]

Hi,
Newbie question: Will running my cable modem into the Gigabit
lan port on my new A7N8X-E deluxe instead of into my current 10/100
fast ethernet card give me a faster connection?

Thanks
Dave
N1RPM
Livermore Falls, Maine

 

[Kirby Crosby]

umm..............................
no.
cable is less than 3 mb/second which isnt even enough to work a 10 mb/second
connection let alone a 1000 mb/s lan connection.

 

[Philip Callan]

Well, it may give him better ping times, but if your asking if your going to
'download' any faster, then no.

 

[Kirby Crosby]

just wondering how it would improve his ping?

I don't think it would affect it at all.
please clarify

thanks

 

[Philip Callan]

Well, theoretically, playing a higher cpu usage game or stuff
with the onboard not routing traffic between the north/south bridge
via the PCI bus.

With Intel CSA-based Gigabit LAN controller, network data can be transferred
at a much higher rate with lower latency. This new interface performs
networking tasks more efficiently, and achieves bi-directional gigabit
speeds.

Less latency = improved ping.

 

[Kirby Crosby]

so he could theoretically reduce latency...
but only on his local bus, so overall improvement would be marginal at best?

 

[Philip Callan]

Very marginal, unless of course he had a whole bunch of them wired up with
gigabit links, raid arrays and turned it into a beowolf cluster or
something..... hehee

 

[Dave]

Thanks for the the quick and courteous response to my question. I
guess seeing that I have 3 options: Kingston 10/100 card, OnBoard Lan
of the A7N8X-E, and the Gigabit Lan, one being marginally better that
the other two, I'll go with the margin. At my age I need all the speed
I can muster, hehe

 

[Kirby Crosby]

I have found the onboard Nvidia NIC to be very fast and efficient., with
little cpu utilization.

 

[boomer]

Actually, cable is capable of a lot more. I used to get road runner
at about 8Mb/sec to their local file server. Yeah it was early in the
morning I moved and use DSL now. 1.5Mb/sec but better service by
far, no fluctuations. Anyway, I recall they said their cable system
(up to the house) was capable of about 30 Mb/sec, but the cablemodem
box was only capable of 10Mb/sec, a bottleneck. Not that they wanted
to give everyone 30Mb/sec

Hell, even my DSL ISP will give you 6Mb/sec if you want to pay for it.

Still, a 100M net work card would be all you'd need.