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