Ethernet In/Out Card?

[DarkBlood]

What are they called? Searching google for Ethernet In/Out Card results in nothing but junk.

[[JSH]John]

What does it usually do? I'm guessing it would be like having 2 ethernet cards in 1?

[Dynash]

Try just Ethernet i/o.

[DarkBlood]

Err, sort of, not really.

It allows one computer or other networking device to send data INTO the card, while the card itself can also hook up to the Internet or router through its OUTGOING port.

[destinysharad]

Ethernet is a family of frame-based computer networking technologies for local area networks (LANs). The name comes from the physical concept of the ether. It defines a number of wiring and signaling standards for the Physical Layer of the OSI networking model, through means of network access at the Media Access Control (MAC) /Data Link Layer, and a common addressing format.

Ethernet is standardized as IEEE 802.3. The combination of the twisted pair versions of Ethernet for connecting end systems to the network, along with the fiber optic versions for site backbones, is the most widespread wired LAN technology. It has been in use from around 1980[1] to the present, largely replacing competing LAN standards such as token ring, FDDI, and ARCNET.

[Schmarvin]

Can't use an ethernet on a card and then use the ethernet on a motherboard?

[bariteau]

You only need two ethernet port to do this, the rest is managed by the Operating System (in windows, it's called bridging)

[Ben]

Err, sort of, not really.

It allows one computer or other networking device to send data INTO the card, while the card itself can also hook up to the Internet or router through its OUTGOING port.

a hub? a switch?