Downgrading from 2.5 gb/s ethernet. Is 1 gb/s enough?

[Michael4Times]

I'm buying a new motherboard and I've found one that seems perfect for my needs, except the ethernet port. My old motherboard had a 2.5gb/s ethernet port. This one has a 1 gb/s ethernet port. Based on every upload and download speed tester I could find, I get usually 500 mb/s down, and 10 mb/s up, sometimes going as high as 700 down and 20 up. Will this lower ethernet speed have any negative impact on my internet speeds?

[AbydosOne]

2 minutes ago, Michael4Times said:

I'm buying a new motherboard and I've found one that seems perfect for my needs, except the ethernet port. My old motherboard had a 2.5gb/s ethernet port. This one has a 1 gb/s ethernet port. Based on every upload and download speed tester I could find, I get usually 500 mb/s down, and 10 mb/s up, sometimes going as high as 700 down and 20 up. Will this lower ethernet speed have any negative impact on my internet speeds?

No.

[FloRolf]

your router probably only has 1gbit ports anyways, so it was always running at 1gbit.

[Michael4Times]

1 minute ago, AbydosOne said:

No.

ok thank you!

[Michael4Times]

Just now, FloRolf said:

your router probably only has 1gbit ports anyways, so it was always running at 1gbit.

thank you for your help!

[Michael4Times]

19 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

your router probably only has 1gbit ports anyways, so it was always running at 1gbit.

Turns out my router has 2.5 gbit ports. Does this make a difference?

[Fasauceome]

2 minutes ago, Michael4Times said:

Turns out my router has 2.5 gbit ports. Does this make a difference?

Do you use 2.5 gigabit transfers for anything locally? If not, you are still looking at your download speeds being the same using the 1gig port

[Guest]

10 hours ago, Michael4Times said:

I'm buying a new motherboard and I've found one that seems perfect for my needs, except the ethernet port. My old motherboard had a 2.5gb/s ethernet port. This one has a 1 gb/s ethernet port. Based on every upload and download speed tester I could find, I get usually 500 mb/s down, and 10 mb/s up, sometimes going as high as 700 down and 20 up. Will this lower ethernet speed have any negative impact on my internet speeds?

2.5gbe cards are super cheap. even 10gbe cards are now. your ISP is likely to push your speeds significantly higher over the next few years with DOCSIS 4 rolling out right now in test markets and 3.x still getting upgrades on the fly. your router and switch (if you have one) may be limiting factors, your modem may be a limiting factor, networking speeds are all dependent on the pipes in the line. 

 

on my desk right now there's 2.5gbe to usb-c on a mac ($20), 1gig on a laptop, and a dual 2.5gbe Intel card that was under $20 in my AMD rig. my server and desktop are both getting 10gbe cards this week that also cost less than $20. I have two 8x2.5gbe/1x10gbe switches ($69) and a Intel n5010 based router with 4x2.5gbe ($100) hooked to a wifi6e access point that itself has 1x2.5gbe/4x1gbe ($too much, they're cheaper now) and a voip modem ($wish I rented it, was like $300 ffs) that has 1x2.5gbe port cause I need a fax machine sometimes. big tax on that lol.

 

anyway. what I'm trying to get at is, it's never been cheaper to get fast networking in your house. all this stuff used to be prohibitively expensive, loud and power-hungry. business is moving on to 40 and 100 and higher gigabits and you get to reap the rewards of this. everything that's important on my network has at least 2.5gbe, but you don't have to do it like that to see benefit. if you have a home server and your desktop on 2.5 or 10gbe then they can talk to each other fast, as long as they're directly connected or hooked thru an appropriate switch. just having 2.5gbe on your old desktop may not have made your network faster, like the other guys alluded to, if it's the only device that supported it. more will. and more cheaply. I got a bunch of $45 brand new NUCs recently all with 2.5gbe on them to replace Rokus and similar devices in my house. there's lots of stuff out there right now, especially from Intel.