Gigabit ethernet and a new modem?

[Slickwall]

Hi guys:

I found your fourms last night and I was very excited. I spend alot of time on the extreme overclockers forums and have trouble getting my specfic modem/firewall/router questions answered. To give you a littel background on my self I fall in the enthusist catagory with some experience as an assistance network administrator about 10 years ago for a small bio tech company in boulder colorado. To be clear I basicly was responsable for clearing spyware and keep our mish mash of win 2k and win 98 boxes running and covering my bosses ass on a daily basis. At any rate I built my own computer about 2/3 years ago and the specs are as follows:

Motherboard: Intel D875PBZLK
Chip: Intel 3.0c (northwood) 800mhz fsb - not overclocked
ram: 2 gigs of kingston hyper x DDR 3200 ram - stock no voltage chages
Video card: EVGA 7800 GS - stock
powersupply: PC Power and Cooling 425w
Hard Drive: Raptor 32GB

My questions are as follows:

Will I get better performace from my cable broadband by upgrading to a better router?

I am considering buying these two products what else do I need to do to bring my computer up to gigabit spec and will I see a performace increase? Also is my router capable of gigabit speeds?

http://games.dlink.com/products/?pid=371
http://games.dlink.com/products/?pid=284&sec=4

My modem:
http://www.terayon.com/tools/static_pag ... t_id=9.3.2

I might have an earlier model - I am at work at the moment I will double check it when I get home.

I have a ton of firewall questions as well but ill save those for another post

Thanks and great to have found your forums

Slickwall

[YARDofSTUF]

The link to what you called your router is a cable modem, the dlink router doesnt replace it, buit its a good router to have, gives you the NAT prtection, like a firewall.

With that router and card you would have a gigabit connection from your PC to the router, not the modem, so you'll still have the same net speed. the gigabit would benefit you if you had multiple PCs hooked up to the router and were transferfing files back and fourth.

I think you also need cat6 cable for gigabit, not sure, cat5e might work.

[Slickwall]

yep sorry that was a typo its my modem not a router Ill try and edit the post. From what I have picked up cat 5e and up will support gigabit ethernet

Slickwall

[Slickwall]

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