[gentoo-user] Ethernet card for puter

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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

:-)  :-)