Crypticalcode0
Experienced Member
There's a lot of misinformation in the last few posts. Dual network ports will not speed things up just by themselves; they're included mostly for hardcore gamers so that one port can go to a LAN and another to a WAN to try to shave off 1ms or so of latency.
Also, DHCP and dynamic addresses don't put a "burden on the network" and are not themselves a "security risk". Not sure where that's coming from.
"static" addresses are a potential security risk.
Windows has a lot of extra's when it comes to networking, Wireshark tells me the whole network on DHCP and default setting get a ARP signals every 30 to 45 seconds or so.(several other things too BTW)