Good N-Base Multi-gig card?

[Neufuse]

Recommendations for multi-gig cars that are either 4 or 5 speed cards? What chip sets are good and are there any to avoid?

 

I'm looking for recommendations that would work with windows 10 systems mainly

[Windows7ge]

Are we talking wireless or wired? Don't think consumer Wi-Fi has reached multiple Gbit yet.

 

Edit:

Alright, looked up what you meant by N-BASE. If you want something better than 1Gbit why not jump strait to 10GBASE-T networking? The adapters can be gotten quite cheaply today especially if you're not afraid of the used market.

[Lurick]

Marvell or Intel come to mind but I know Aquantia has some cards out as well, just not sure how good they are.

[Neufuse]

1 hour ago, Windows7ge said:

Are we talking wireless or wired? Don't think consumer Wi-Fi has reached multiple Gbit yet.

 

Edit:

Alright, looked up what you meant by N-BASE. If you want something better than 1Gbit why not jump strait to 10GBASE-T networking? The adapters can be gotten quite cheaply today especially if you're not afraid of the used market.

Because I have systems that are still on cat5e, and N-Base can support 2.5GbE over cat5e fine, and even 5Gbit with little issue at short distances

[Windows7ge]

12 minutes ago, Neufuse said:

Because I have systems that are still on cat5e, and N-Base can support 2.5GbE over cat5e fine, and even 5Gbit with little issue at short distances

That's what I figured. Are these cables ran though walls? If not Cat6a isn't actually all that expensive. At least not for the short runs you'd need in an average sized home.

[Neufuse]

29 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

That's what I figured. Are these cables ran though walls? If not Cat6a isn't actually all that expensive. At least not for the short runs you'd need in an average sized home.

it's all structured wiring in wall that is not easily replaceable without cutting out a lot of drywall including a dry-walled ceiling in the basement that it runs through

[Alex Atkin UK]

Surprisingly, I've found that even the Realtek USB N-BASE-T adapters work FAR better than you traditionally would expect from Realtek.

 

Here's the 2.5Gbit USB adapter pulling from my NAS which is connected to the switch over 10G ASUS XG-C100C (Aquantia Corp. AQC107 NBase-T/IEEE 802.3bz Ethernet Controller).

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Reverse mode, remote host lcars is sending
[  5] local 192.168.1.1 port 33530 connected to 192.168.1.253 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   263 MBytes  2.21 Gbits/sec                  
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   265 MBytes  2.22 Gbits/sec                  
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   265 MBytes  2.22 Gbits/sec                  
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   265 MBytes  2.22 Gbits/sec                  
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   265 MBytes  2.22 Gbits/sec                  
[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec   264 MBytes  2.21 Gbits/sec                  
[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec   264 MBytes  2.22 Gbits/sec                  
[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec   265 MBytes  2.22 Gbits/sec                  
[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec   265 MBytes  2.22 Gbits/sec                  
^C[  5]   9.00-9.07   sec  17.6 MBytes  2.22 Gbits/sec                  
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-9.07   sec  0.00 Bytes  0.00 bits/sec                  sender
[  5]   0.00-9.07   sec  2.34 GBytes  2.22 Gbits/sec                  receiver

Here is sending:

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[  5] local 192.168.1.1 port 33536 connected to 192.168.1.253 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   283 MBytes  2.38 Gbits/sec    0    407 KBytes       
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   280 MBytes  2.35 Gbits/sec    0    419 KBytes       
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   280 MBytes  2.35 Gbits/sec    0    430 KBytes       
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   281 MBytes  2.36 Gbits/sec    0    387 KBytes       
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   280 MBytes  2.35 Gbits/sec    0    382 KBytes       
[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec   280 MBytes  2.35 Gbits/sec    0    390 KBytes       
[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec   279 MBytes  2.34 Gbits/sec    0    399 KBytes       
[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec   280 MBytes  2.35 Gbits/sec    0    387 KBytes       
[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec   281 MBytes  2.36 Gbits/sec    0    390 KBytes       
^C[  5]   9.00-9.48   sec   134 MBytes  2.34 Gbits/sec    0    387 KBytes       
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-9.48   sec  2.60 GBytes  2.35 Gbits/sec    0             sender
[  5]   0.00-9.48   sec  0.00 Bytes  0.00 bits/sec                  receiver

I haven't checked cable lengths, all pretty short here.

 

It also goes ever so slightly faster with jumbo frames, but IMO its not worth the hassle. (mainly as the Linux kernel driver doesn't support jumbo frames, you have to compile the older manufacturer driver)

[Neufuse]

Got two cards based off the Aquantia chipset.

we will see how they perform