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Howdy all, |
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I saw the guys running fiber optic cable today, in front of MY house. |
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It wasn't supposed to be here until next year. I almost fainted from |
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the excitement. I got a router a while back that is 1Gb ready. They |
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supply the modem. I still have a old 100Mb network card in my puter |
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tho. So, it needs updating, after all these years of faithful service. |
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I found one and this is the model number and such for it, description |
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too. "Dell V5XVT-FH Intel I350-T2 DP 1GB PCIe Ethernet Network Card" |
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I don't really care about brand as long as it is a reliable product. |
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That one is Dell, I'm fine with any brands as long as they aren't bad |
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to blow smoke on the 2nd or 3rd power up. :/ I'm almost certain I have |
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PCIe ports available. I think that's what the current card is in |
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actually. Thing is, this has two ports and so does about all I see, |
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except for those with 4 ports. Will having 2 ports cause any problems? |
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Most likely, one won't be connected at all. I just want to be sure that |
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it won't cause any issues or that using both is required for some reason |
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I never heard of. |
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They think we should be connected in a few months. Cables comes first |
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then they set up the control boxes etc etc. I'm going with a package |
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that will be about 300 times faster and only cost about $10 a month more |
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than my wimpy DSL. Oh crap. I need to expand my hard drive space |
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again. Glad I use LVM. LOL I thought I had another year to deal with |
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that too. |
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Thoughts on that card? Work fine? |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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