Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 06:20:28PM -0600 schrieb Dale: >> Howdy, >> >> Somewhat related. I googled and it appears I can hook a NAS to my >> router and share it there. The router is 1GB, it has yellow ports. Is >> it true that I can hook a NAS to the router? > Maybe they meant that the router itself has NAS features. This is common for > not-too-simple models. You can hook up an external drive and the router has > the ability to share it in the network via samba or ftp or some such. >
That's what it looked like in the picture. It said to plug the NAS into a ethernet port and it would be shared. It makes sense but I didn't know that until I read it. I guess it is like my printer. Whether hooked up wireless or with a ethernet port, it is shared with anything hooked to the router. If all that works like I think, yeppie! >> I'd assume it can be shared with anything connected to the router, even my >> cell phone if needed. > If there is a client on the phone that can access it, sure. After all, it's > just a server using a certain protocol. > >> Also, I'm looking at a new network card for my PC. With the new much >> faster internet coming soon, I need a faster network card. > Your PC isn't that old, AFAIR. The times of mainboards that only have 100 > ethernet should be a thing of the past. Computer isn't to old but the on board ethernet was flaky last I tried it. I disabled it and used the network card from my old system, which had the same problem of a not so stable on mobo network. It's a 100MB version. I think it is a large B. Since it is a old card, I want to upgrade to a faster one. Until now, I never needed one. I never had anything fast enough to need what I have now actually. ;-) >> Router is ready, puter isn't. I found this, sorry for the caps but copy >> and paste. INTEL GIGABIT DUAL PORT NETWORK ADAPTER PCIe 424RR i350 1GB. >> I found a site that talks about NAS and network cards. According to the >> article, this should be a very reliable card and just works. It has two >> ports. I know I need one to hook to the router. Would that second port >> cause me any grief? Result in conflicts or something? > I have a network card for a second port in my PC. Never needed it yet, but > it's nice to have. I usually use the onboard network to connect to my > router. When I removed the GPU for a while, the PCI ids of the network cards > shifted by one, so I had to adjust dhcp setup. So much for enp3s0 being > always the same. > >> I been using Realtek but article claims these are better. > Intel cards do more stuff in hardware, relieving the CPU of some load. > Realteks rely on your CPU to do that. That's why they're not very popuplar > among network experts. But that is only relevant if you do heavy network > stuff like routing, switching and whatnot for other devices. Both my PC's > network ports are realteks and they also just work and give me full gigabit > bandwidth. > I wasn't aware of that. Reminds me of those old winmodems. I'll likely get the Intel one. If needed, I can just not use the 2nd port I guess and not enable it until I do need it, if ever. Price isn't to bad. I'm still waiting on a time frame of when the new internet will get here. It may be months, maybe even a year but right now, we don't know since the people putting it out here don't know either. The sooner the better in my book tho. Dale :-) :-)
