Dual Gigabit NIC Card

I've had no issues streaming three concurrent HD (mix of 1080i and 720p) streams from my NAS with it's single on-board Gb NIC.


Unless you get the dual Gb NIC at basically the same price as a decent Intel PROSet Gb NIC I wouldn't bother.

Only if you are running a B&B and a dozen rooms can be accessing your server at the same time.

Also,


Unless you are running some kind of a special high performance disk or disk array, the bottleneck is likely going to be the drives rather than the network connection. A single gigabit network will deliver about 120MB/s of continuous throughput if the rest of the server can keep up, which most can't.