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Originally posted by VF19
Another question: If I add another NIC to my PC, could I use two connections to my router and double the internet speed?
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no, the bottle-neck would be the internet connection itself. unless the router has some kind of weird bandwidth throttling rules, the speed coming out of the router to your single card should be pretty close to, if not max (as long as no one else on your side of the router is downloading).
The cable modem is probably giving you ~1-2Mbs, the wan port that it connects to (on the router) can usually handle 10Mbs, and the "switch" on the router which your computer is connected to, is usually 100Mbs along with the nic in your PC.
confused yet? this is one of those cases were diagrams come in handy