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This is a network connection between a PC and a server, so faster the better. Both mobos have 2.5gb ethernet, so my first thought was to buy a 2.5gb switch. Then once seeing the price of the switchs, I realised 2x 10gb NIC's would be cheaper and 4x the speed. Buying a 2.5gb switch which will cost me about $150 I can buy 2x 10gb SFP+ NIC and the optical cable with transeivers for less than the switch So the idea would be that the mobo would bridge to the NIC and supply internet to the other machine. 1. Is this possible? 2. Is there other consideratiions I need to consider?

Greetings, I hope someone can assist me with an ongoing network issue. I own the ASUS XG-C100C NIC and it is installed on an MSI X570-A Pro Motherboard (CPU: Ryzen 9 5900X). I am running Windows 11 22H2 (Build 22621.1702). Unfortunately, I am only able to achieve speeds of up to 4491.86 Mbps down and 1691.08 Mbps up. I have a 10 Gbit/s FTTH connection at home. My ISP sent one of their technicians to my apartment, and he conducted measurements using my Cat6 cable, which is directly connected to the 10 Gbit/s port of the router/fiber box. He was able to achieve up- and download speeds of around 8 Gbit/s. To troubleshoot the issue, I tested the same NIC using Linux Mint Cinnamon 21.1 by creating a bootable USB. Surprisingly, I received significantly higher download and upload speeds - almost 6 Gbit/s down and 3 Gbit/s up. Additionally, I tested another NIC (OWC - the same one that Linus bought for his home system, I believe?) on my system and obtained very similar results. I could really use some advice on how to fix this issue... thx

Hello all. I recently bought this ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BFPWSMV2?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1 )10g NIC and am having trouble getting it to output 10g link speed. I have it slotted into the 2nd PCIe slot(PCIEX4) on my MOBO . PCIEX16 Bifurcation is set to AUTO Mobo bios version is F37a Installed network driver is the Marvell AQtion 10Gbit Network Adapter Speed & Duplex If I set it to 10g Full I get this If I set it to 5g or 2.5g it works fine. When set to Auto Negotiation I get I've never used a separate network card so I really have no experience above onboard 1g NICs. Is there something I'm missing?

Ok I have a really weird issue going on with my network switch in my living room. It’s a tp-link something-or-other 8 port unmanaged switch, v6.0. I also have an identical one in my office, which naturally has a bunch of stuff plugged into it also. now the one in the living room, for some reason the first port (incoming from router, that’s another story for another day) and second port light up green, as in 1000mbps. If it’s getting that speed, don’t know don’t care - it’s green. then, everything else only gets 500mbps, or orange. I’ve swapped cat6 cables, used a cable tester, re-terminated bad lines, pretty much everything logical you can think of. Even connected to the web-GUI (lol) and swapped from auto negotiate to 1000mbps. No dice again, identical model in my office, configured no differently except it’s “name”. I had a few ports at 500 then did my cable tester and sure enough, simply re-terminated the lines and 1000mbps no problem. Every single port is green on that one basement, basically the network hub. Tp-link 16 port unmanaged switch, most ports connected to my server (some at 500mbps but that’s intentional), 2 setup with link aggregation to my router. Works fine, actually better. One line going from there to my office, another office line going directly to my servers SFP (SPF?) 100gbps port (idk it’s super fast/expensive). That ones on a diff subnet entirely, connected directly to my pc’s 2.5 nic, while the 1gbps nic is on the “normal” subnet straight to the 16port. say the least, two identical models, identical “versions”, newest firmware updated, both connected the same way, yet living room only gets 500mbps on all but 2 ports. Office is actually a longer cable run so you’d figure…. Also yes everything is setup (wired anyway) for static ip’s. Since it’s an unmanaged switch my options are limited at best with the web GUI. Basically just QoS, VLAN, port aggregation, and specifying what port gets diff options (50mbps? 500? 1gb? Flow control? Etc etc). Considering just shoving that reset button to see if it helps, couldn’t hurt. also yes, when I switch devices to either port 1/2, bam it goes green. So that eliminates cabling or the device as supporting only 500mbps now I’d buy a managed switch but considering the price tag, uh I think solving a problem with a 18$ switch is more cost effective for my needs lol. I’d rather put a managed switch in the basement so I can get more power out of my server any ideas peeps? Again, two identical switches, both wired the same way, one gets 500mbps, other gets 1gbps. Both on same firmware and all that. kinda wanna figure this out cause my Ps5 gets 1gbps but the hdmi Ethernet balun gets 500mbps. Meanwhile my server has a kvm hdmi balun, connected to the 16 port, then a line from there directly to office - 1gbps all day. Why am I using a kvm rather than just RDP? Well, to access the bios! Gotta configure all that fun server junk in there right? just outta ideas on this one. Wish there was a way to clear the routing tables (forget what it’s called). Let me know if ya got any ideas! In the meantime I’m gonna shove that reset button but I doubt it’ll make any difference thanks everybody!!!

Hi so I just received my new boot drive that I changed because I was running out of space. I am running a server with ubuntu 20.04 on it and I am using 2 2.5gbs nic in both it and my main pc. Before I was getting a steady 280-290MB/s of transfer rate. But after restoring a backup that I had made with dd and also restored it with it I am now getting ~180MB/s Anyone have any idea why that would be?

Hello guys, I need some help setting up my 10GbE P2P So I got two NC523SFP off Ebay, one is in my trueNAS Server and one in my Win 10 Desktop. They are connected with two 455883-B21. The one in the NAS system showed up in config with no prior driver installations - no problems. For the Windows side i got the official HP Windows Server Driver, extracted the .exe and installed the drivers manually - this apparently worked as they got recognized as Network adapters, no problems here either. At least I think so lol Only thing is, that they claim there's no network cable attached - however this might be because since theres no DHCP and no static IPs set? I did set static IPs and Subnet and all on both sides, but this did not give me a connection or any visible change. Also note that truenas has the Link State "DOWN" - do I have to UP it manually? And is there any way how I can tell the two ports apart? Which one is ql0 and which is ql1? Also also the lights on the NICs are not blinking whatsoever - is this a sign that something went wrong with the drivers or did they overheat? (Any way i can check their temperature?) So any help is appreciated, did I do something wrong or did I miss anything? Do I have to update the NICs Firmware? Cheers

Hi so I've got a 2.5gb nic with that has Realtek rtl8125 chipset on them. But they automatically use the r8169 driver that is used for my onboard ethernet. And since I've got the r8125 driver installed id like them to use that on instead. Is their any way top do so? I looked online and couldnt find any. this is the result of my nic when running lcpci -v Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8125 2.5GbE Controller Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8125 2.5GbE Controller [...] Kernel driver in use: r8169 Kernel modules: r8169, r8125

Who makes the best 10GbE NIC for windows 10? I’ve seen good things about these: >ASUS XG-C100C >TP-Link TX401 >10GTek X540-10G-2T-X8 >Intel X540-T2 >ipolex X540-10G-2T Which have you guys had luck with? I want the best out of box experience.

Hi, So I recently decided to switch to linux for my main OS and I have been having some problems with my nic. So my setup is pretty straight foward I have two 2.5Gb/s nics one in my pc and one in my server that are both directly connected to one another. My problem is that I am not able to get the speed that is advertized on linux. I am on Kubuntu 21.04 btw. I never had this problem on windows. I have the r8125 driver installed and loaded but even then It dosnt work. When doing "ehtool enp9s0" these are the results I get. Settings for enp9s0: Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full 2500baseT/Full Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Supported FEC modes: Not reported Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised FEC modes: Not reported Link partner advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full 2500baseT/Full Link partner advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Link partner advertised FEC modes: Not reported Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Auto-negotiation: on Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal MDI-X: Unknown Supports Wake-on: pumbg Wake-on: g Current message level: 0x00000033 (51) drv probe ifdown ifup Link detected: yes So it is supported but the speed is stuck at 100Mb/s for some reason. Any ideas would be greatly apreciated since I didnt buy both cards wanting them to be as slow as in integrated eth port lol. They work perfectly fine under windows and have a problem ONLY when im on booted in kubuntu on my main pc.

The M1 Mac Mini was an impressive machine with one major caveat – Apple removed the 10 gigabit NIC. We thought it was because they couldn’t make it work. We thought wrong… Or did we? Buy Apple Mac mini M1 (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/jJPvr

Disclaimer: All credit goes to my friend Maz0r, he's the one who found out about the project and did the hard work. So providing I understand everything correctly... The jist of it is old enterprise HP server 10Gb/40Gb NICs are getting sold on ebay for dirt cheap? Why cheap? Because they have a proprietary connector FlexibleLOM or FlexLOM and so would only fit HP Server boards. However the 'proprietary' part is a little misleading as it's actually still PCIe technology but the pins are shifted! They're also mostly refurbs. This means that it was possible to develop a FlexLOM-Adapter On the project page they list particular NICs that they support( I personally got the 561FLR-T): FlexibleLOM NIC Model Connectors v1.0 v1.1 331FLR Broadcom BCM5719 Quad RJ45 GbE ✔ 366FLR intel i350 Quad RJ45 GbE ✔ ✔ CX3 ALOM Mellanox ConnectX-3 Single SFP+ 10GbE ✔ ✔ 530FLR-SFP+ Broadcom BCM57810S Dual SFP+ 10GbE ✔ 544FLR-QSFP Mellanox ConnectX-3 Dual QSFP+ 40GbE ✔ ✔ 544+FLR-QSFP Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro Dual QSFP+ 40GbE ✔ ✔ 560FLR-SFP+ intel 82599 Dual SFP+ 10GbE ✔ ✔ 561FLR-T intel X540 Dual RJ45 10GbE ✔ ✔ Now the first card my friend went to install did end up shorting his mobo + GPU (RIP GPU ) But the following 3 were fine after he added the small tabs around the screws where you would screw it in to hold it in place. I've attached screenshots of the cards registering fine on windows. UPDATE: The card is quite tall and wasn't screwed into the case, plugging a cable in was enough pressure to rotate the card within the slot causing the short If getting one these cards be sure to fasten it to the case and it should be fine (like you would any other PCIe device) My only uncertainty in this is that my second x16 PCIe slot can only have a max of x4 speeds which should in theory be enough for 10Gb ethernet though the adapter states it wants x8 so I'll be crossing my fingers for that part I guess. If I end up buying a new mobo that already has 10Gb onboard I'll probably be selling one or two on the cheap or handing them back to friendo. Adapter Project(contains adapter PCB files): https://github.com/KCORES/KCORES-FlexibleLOM-Adapter Creator of the project: https://twitter.com/Toble_Miner Drivers for windows: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/22283/Intel-Ethernet-Adapter-Complete-Driver-Pack FlexLOM connector to be used with adapter: https://lcsc.com/product-detail/Card-Edge-Connectors_UMAX-3126-10102T_C404097.html Linux: just 'works'? TLDR; I bought 3 10Gb NICs from my friend for £29 each for the card + adapter, also I paid him a bit extra for his time soldering :] Edit: Clarification based on question; the adapter has 2 parts that need soldering together, the main adapter card and the FlexLOM connector: NICs.jfif screenshot cards.jfif screenshot cards2.jfif screenshot cards3.jfif screenshot cards.jfif

Hi, I am wondering if it's possible to do Link Aggregation/LACP with my motherboard's built in 1Gbps port and an additional 1Gbps port card. Is this possible to get 2Gbps theoretical speeds (In Link Aggregation/LACP mode) if I use the built in NIC and one 3rd party NIC? Was thinking of getting a card like this one on eBay so I get an additional NIC and some extra USBs. Thanks,

Hi, I have a motherboard with an extra PCIe 3.0 x1 slot. I wanted to put a NIC like this Dual Port Gigabit PCI Express Server Network Adapter Card and was wondering if the PCIe 3.0 x1 will bottleneck a 2-port gigabit card that's using full bandwidth. Let's say I configure it to Link Aggregation/LACP and make it effectively 2gbps. Will the PCIe 3.0 x1 slot bottleneck this card? If so, how much of a hit would it take? Thanks,

Dear Community I turned my old PC into a NAS with FreeNAS, everything works so far. A couple weeks ago I setup a lancache for games on a VM with docker. This works too but I noticed there is a bottleneck in my setup. After some tests I figured out, the cabeling in my flat is the bad guy. So there we are now, what I have and what I want: I bought two NIC (Asus XG-c100c), drivers on both, my Gaming PC (Win10) and FreeNAS (11.2) are installed. PC and FreeNAS connected with Cat6. My expectation is to get a direct access from my PC to the NAS over the NIC and to the Internet over the onboard interface. The connections right now: PC to Switch with onboard interface (for Internet) PC to NAS witch NIC (for lancache) NAS to PC with NIC NAS to Switch with onboard interface I want to download with 10 Gb from my lancache and my lancache should download the game if it is not yet in the cache. I've read about different ways to do it but no solution looks like my setup. LAPP-, VLAN- and Bridge-Guides I've already read not used them yet. I'd like to get some pointers on what I have to set up on my NAS and maybe on my PC. Sincerely Manu My Setup: PC: Mainboard Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 Processor Intel Core i7-4790K @4.00GHz RAM 32 GB Ethernet-Interface Killer 2200 (onboard) NIC ASUS XG-c100c 10G PCI-E Network adapter NAS: Mainboard Asus AMD Crosshair IV Formula Processor AMD Phenom II X6 1100T (6 cores) RAM 2x4GB and 2x8 GB (not optimal but works, somehow) Ethernet-Interface ??? (onboard)(msk0) NIC ASUS XG-c100c 10G PCI-E Network adapter (aq0)

Hey kind visitor I upgraded my PC (Win 10) and my FreeNAS with a second NIC. Most of what I tryed to do works so far but my loadingtime in the internet is not great. Probably because every query in my Browser goes first head on into my dead end. NIC A = 10gig -> my upgrade NIC B = 1gig -> onboard On my PC I setup the NIC's like the following: NIC A has priority over NIC B NIC A 192.168.2.60 -> Gateway to 192.168.2.65 (FreeNAS) NIC B 192.168.1.108 (DHCP) -> Gateway to 192.168.1.1 (Router) What I think that happens with every query: I open a website, the browser tells NIC A to go to the Website's IP -> NIC A can't go to the internet because FreeNAS isn't connected with my router -> then the query goes over NIC B and connects successfully. That takes some time, with every query. The reason why I've setup like this: Caching downloads on FreeNAS (on a VM with docker but that should be a different topic, it already worked but with the slow NIC B) so when I download it, the query should go first to the FreeNAS over NIC A. If there is no cache, it should connect with NIC B to the external Servers. The setup of Lancache isn't finished yet, so I couldn't try if my plan works like this. Or is there a much easyer way to setup the network to cache with NIC A and get quick loading times in my Browser with NIC B? Any help is appriciated Cheers Manu

I have a HP Omen 15-dc0020nr with super stange boot issues. It will not boot if I have a nic installed the power button the blinks on 5 sec off 3 sec. However when I pull the nic out it will boot just fine?! I have tired different nics but same model (Intel ax201ngw) could it be a compatibility issue with the nic? Seems like a wierd symptom if that was the case.

alright so in my home network I will be making a home server soon, the network config that I need is 2 cables between my NAS and my router for wlan transfers, 1 cable between my PC and my NAS for LAN transfers, and 1 cable between my PC and my router for internet access, how would I go about configuring my networking so that my pc would only transfer files between itself and the nas over the ethernet cable they (I plan on making them) share and not over the cables to my router?

Hi all, I have a Ethernet and WiFi on my desktop - both on same network. I need to use a VPN to remote work - its a custom VPN provided by my company not much settings to change unlike if you setup a VPN yourself from Windows 10. How can I make it so that the VPN connection goes through the WiFi card (its mostly for RDP session not need of too much bandwith so WiFi is more than ok). I partially succeeded but it requires me to disable the Ethternet , start the VPN and then re-enable the Ethernet. I want to avoid to do this and also sometimes when I re-enable the Ethernet the VPN drops. Does anyone tried something like this and could share his setup ? Thanks

Hey guys, I've got a Windows Server and it is mainly used as a CCTV NVR. The footage from 6 1080P cameras are recorded 24x7 to 2x 3TB hard drives on the server. The main reason I was wondering if I would benefit from another NIC is that I have just started syncing the last 3 days worth of footage to the Cloud. As you can imagine this puts constant load on the NIC in terms sending and receiving data. Currently I have a single 1GB Ethernet connection to my server. I have the required networking equipment in place to handle another link to my server as I have a new DrayTek Router. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am getting a new NAS that supports Link Aggregation or teaming. I am getting a new switch the NETGEAR ProSAFE JGS524E 24-Port switch that supports Link Aggregation and I need a 2 port gigabit NIC that will work with my windows 10 computer so I can get fast transfer rates. I was wondering if this NIC will work with windows 10. If this NIC does not work or there is a better cheaper one I would appreciate a link. Thanks for your time. NIC https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4A04ZV6495&cm_re=nic-_-33-106-014-_-Product Switch https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-ProSAFE-JGS524E-Rackmount-JGS524Ev2/dp/B00GG1AD9A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1488145665&sr=8-1&keywords=netgear+prosafe+jgs524e

Hi everyone, My Home PC NIC card may be malfunctioning. I don't have a loopback plug to test it. Is there a piece of software anyone recommends to test it that I can put on a flash drive from my working computer? I plug in the ethernet cable and simply detects no internet connection. Every other wired and wireless device in the house is connecting to the Internet just fine. Also, I am using a known good ethernet cable. I can also put drivers on a flash drive, but I am not even sure what drivers specifically I should get. I suppose I should look at device manager on the malfunctioning computer to see the NIC details? Thanks for any thoughts.

I recently purchased the Asus Maximus IX Hero motherboard for my build, then realized I'm going to have to put my computer further from my router than I'd have liked, so I'm going to need a WiFI NIC. Does anyone know what the best solution would be? I'd like to go with an M.2 NIC if possible, but I don't know what antennae to use and which NIC would be best if I did.

Fellow techies, I purchased an Intel NIC that supports WOL but I never seemed to be able to get it to work. The drivers (both new and second to newest) didn't agree with Windows 7 and caused BSOD f4 all the time. The NIC I purchased was the Intel Gigabit CT PCIE Network Adapter EXPI9301CTBLK. Has anyone had this issue before? What would be a good WOL NIC?

Recently I purchased the RNX-AC1900PCE Wireless PCIe card for my rig - I accidentally broke one of the antenna, and while it still works well, I wanted to know where to buy a set of three replacement antennae that are considered 'very high gain' for dual-band beamforming wireless performance - that are also preferably less than 6 inches in length (as the ones it came with are 4 1/4 inches). The type I am looking for is an RP-SMA female connector type antenna, or at least, that's what Rosewill support told me. I see this product: http://www.embeddedworks.net/ante542.html but I'm not sure if it would be compatible or if it would perhaps end up slowing down or otherwise decreasing the overall performance of the card by being a weak link. So if anyone here can provide advice, thanks!