I have bonded Dual Gigabit Ethernet (aggregated). We have a 48 port Switch / hub. With a 10 Gigabit uplink. I have started benchmarking our websites. Faster then 87% websites ever tested. I know I would not like to wait a whole one second to wait for a website to load.

I am starting to think differently.

I have been playing with Link Aggregation, has many names.
Link aggregation is sometimes called by other names:

• Ethernet bonding
• Ethernet teaming
• Link bonding
• Link bundling
• Link teaming
• Network interface controller (NIC) bonding
• NIC teaming
• Port aggregation
• Port channeling
• Port trunking

Got to love confusion. I have put the server online with 2 Gigabit, sounds fantastic does it not? In theory yes, in practice…

Jackhammer (my main rig) becomes the bottleneck. I can still only pull at Gigabit (117.6 Megabytes per sec), capable of twice that. Sound like a waste now does it not? Well not totally, If I am pulling a Gigabit & 2 Smart TV’s and the wife PC is pulling a Gigabit. I may drop a second Gigabit NIC (Network Interface Controller) in my rig and try to aggregate them to see if I can pull 2 Gigabit, if I can it is on. I will drop a third in the server and a third in my main rig. I do have a 48 port Gigabit per port Switch / Hub with 10 Gigabit Uplink.

Once I hit 750 Megabytes a sec the server becomes the bottleneck. The fastest the drives can send information 2 X 8TB peak at 750MB a sec. Add a third drive I am sure a Gigabyte a sec. We can only dream at this point. It will take 6.3 Gigabit cards to max out the server. I am already starting to do math on it. They do make quad port Gigabit Ethernet cards.

A experiment down the road.