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.

> 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.

> 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.

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