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I work a lot at night so it isn't unusual to have a Netflix movie playing, a customer's PC downloading updates, be connected remotely to other people and a 4GB ISO downloading all at once.
That's a fair amount of traffic...but since you won't be doing any heavy switching (i.e. just nat and filtering), I think you're safe. 950 MHz should be more than sufficient.

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The Duron 950 machine I plan to use has two 3Com 3C905-TX NIC's in it. Should I go with GB NIC on the LAN side?
I wouldn't worry about that just yet. The gigabit NICs usually have more cache and better performance even for 10/100, but unless you have a few lying around already I wouldn't worry about it unless you can show it's a problem. Since this machine will be a NAT gateway, you probably wouldn't see much performance boost unless you replaced both NICs...but again, you'll probably be ok as is since most home internet connections are well under 100 Mbps in speed =)
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