Author: parsec
Subject: X99M Extreme4 - Which LAN port to use?
Posted: 11 Apr 2016 at 1:16pm
For your board, if you look at the IO panel with the board mounted in a standard vertical tower case, the "top" RJ-45 port is for the Intel I218V. That means the RJ-45 port below it, just above the audio jacks, is the Atheros AR8171.
My ASRock X99 board uses the same two chips, which can be teamed in several different ways. Only Adaptive Load Balancing is useful for a PC, but any added speed potential by using two network ports will always be limited by your Internet ISP, which is far less than 1Gbps, and is really under 100Mbps.
Unless you have two separate routers which are each on an independent connection to your ISP, you cannot get more speed than is possible through the one connection into one router.
Still, I have mine connected to a simple switch, and both chips do work, but more speed, no, not without an improved main connection to the Internet.
Subject: X99M Extreme4 - Which LAN port to use?
Posted: 11 Apr 2016 at 1:16pm
For your board, if you look at the IO panel with the board mounted in a standard vertical tower case, the "top" RJ-45 port is for the Intel I218V. That means the RJ-45 port below it, just above the audio jacks, is the Atheros AR8171.
My ASRock X99 board uses the same two chips, which can be teamed in several different ways. Only Adaptive Load Balancing is useful for a PC, but any added speed potential by using two network ports will always be limited by your Internet ISP, which is far less than 1Gbps, and is really under 100Mbps.
Unless you have two separate routers which are each on an independent connection to your ISP, you cannot get more speed than is possible through the one connection into one router.
Still, I have mine connected to a simple switch, and both chips do work, but more speed, no, not without an improved main connection to the Internet.