Sandy Bridge Posted October 2, 2022 Share Posted October 2, 2022 This sub-forum needs some love, so let's have a poll about wired network speeds. I'm particularly curious about the fastest link between two points. I.e. if your desktop supports 5 Gbps but your laptop only supports 1 Gbps, and those are your only two end-user devices, the fastest link would be 1 Gbps (assuming no bottlenecks at the router or elsewhere in between). I'm still at 1 Gbps. I'd like to get up to at least 2.5 Gbps, but between updating multiple adapters and the router (or adding a switch), it hasn't quite been worth it yet. Though I do have a few Cat6 cables so that part of the upgrade is done. 2 Desktop: Core i5 2500k "Sandy Bridge" | RX 480 | 32 GB DDR3 | 850 Evo + HDDs | Seasonic 650W | Noctua Fans | 8.1 Pro Laptop: MSI Alpha 15 | Ryzen 5800H | Radeon 6600M | 16 GB DDR4 | 512 GB SSD | 10 Home Laptop history: MSI GL63 (2018) | HP EliteBook 8740w (acq. 2014) | Dell Inspiron 1520 (2007) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Custom90gt Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 Fastest connection? I have a 40Gbps link between my server and my brocade switch. Desktop is at 10Gbps right now but plans to up it to 40Gbps as well. Sadly most things are on my Ruckus wireless access-point and that tops out at 900Mbps to most laptops. 2 1 1 Desktop | Intel i9-12900k | ASUS ROG Strix Z690-F | 2x16GB Oloy DDR5 @ 6400mhz CL32 | EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra | AW3821DW| 980 Pro 1TB PCIe 4.0 | All under water | Server | SM846 | Unraid 6.12.0-rc4.1 | AMD Epyc 7F52 | Supermicro H12SSL-I | Tesla P40 24GB | 256GB 3200MHz ECC 8-channel | 100+TB ZFS | Backup Server | SM826 | Unraid 6.12.0-rc4.1 | AMD Epyc 7302 | Supermicro H11SSL-I | Tesla P4 8GB | 256GB 2133MHz ECC 8-channel | 100+TB ZFS | Dell XPS 9510 | Intel i7-11800H | RTX 3050 Ti | 16GB 3200mhz | 1TB SX8200 | 1080P | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssj92 Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 My iMac Pro supports 10Gbps, and I hope to get a 10Gbps PCIe card for my server desktop. I want to get a 10Gbps switch in the future to allow for maximum speed between server and clients. unfortunately for now I have 1Gbps speed with my 16-port switch Alienware m18 : Intel Core i9 13900HX | nVidia GeForce RTX 4090 | K1675 | 2x1TB SSDs Alienware Area-51M : Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.3Ghz | nVidia GeForce RTX 2080 | AX210 | Samsung 970 Evo+ Alienware X14 R1 : Intel Core i7 12700H 12th-Gen | nVidia GeForce RTX 3060 | AX411 | SK Hynix 2TB PCIe4 Alienware M18x R2 : Intel Core i7 3920XM @ 4.7Ghz | nVidia Quadro RTX 3000 | AX210 | Samsung 980 PRO Clevo X170SM-G: Intel Core i7 10700K @ Stock | nVidia GeForce RTX 2070S | AX210 | 256GB+2x512GB M14x (555m) | M14xR2 (650m) | M15x (980m) | M17xR3 (880m) | M18xR1 (880m SLI) | 18 R1 (RTX 3000) CS Studios YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CSStudiosYT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Custom90gt Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 10 hours ago, ssj92 said: My iMac Pro supports 10Gbps, and I hope to get a 10Gbps PCIe card for my server desktop. I want to get a 10Gbps switch in the future to allow for maximum speed between server and clients. unfortunately for now I have 1Gbps speed with my 16-port switch When that time comes make a thread and I can help you find reasonable 10Gbps devices. Don't spend hundreds on a switch... 1 Desktop | Intel i9-12900k | ASUS ROG Strix Z690-F | 2x16GB Oloy DDR5 @ 6400mhz CL32 | EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra | AW3821DW| 980 Pro 1TB PCIe 4.0 | All under water | Server | SM846 | Unraid 6.12.0-rc4.1 | AMD Epyc 7F52 | Supermicro H12SSL-I | Tesla P40 24GB | 256GB 3200MHz ECC 8-channel | 100+TB ZFS | Backup Server | SM826 | Unraid 6.12.0-rc4.1 | AMD Epyc 7302 | Supermicro H11SSL-I | Tesla P4 8GB | 256GB 2133MHz ECC 8-channel | 100+TB ZFS | Dell XPS 9510 | Intel i7-11800H | RTX 3050 Ti | 16GB 3200mhz | 1TB SX8200 | 1080P | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reciever Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 I have been meaning to make more of an effort on my network. Its kind of a mess since everything is connected via wireless bridges. Recently noticed that my intranet speed is much lower than I would've liked. Telegram / TS3 / Twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybee83 Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 20 hours ago, Custom90gt said: Fastest connection? I have a 40Gbps link between my server and my brocade switch. Desktop is at 10Gbps right now but plans to up it to 40Gbps as well. Sadly most things are on my Ruckus wireless access-point and that tops out at 900Mbps to most laptops. dude, talk about LAN flex 😄 noice! 1 Mine: Hyperion "Titan God of Heat, Heavenly Light, Power" (2022) AMD Ryzen 9 7950X / Asus ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme / MSI Geforce RTX 4090 Suprim X / G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB DDR5-6600 2x16 GB / Seagate Firecuda 530 4 TB / 2x Samsung 860 Evo 4 TB / Arctic Liquid Freezer II 420 / Seasonic TX-1600 W Titanium / Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2 TG / Samsung Odyssey Neo G8 32" UHD 240 Hz / Ducky One 3 Daybreak Fullsize Cherry MX Brown / Corsair M65 Ultra RGB My Lady's: Clevo NH55JNNQ "Alfred" (2022) Sharp LQ156M1JW03 FHD matte 15.6" IGZO 8 bit @248 Hz / Intel 12600 @ 4.4 - 4.8 Ghz / Nvidia 3070 Ti 8 GB GDDR6 / G.Skill 16 GB DDR4-3800 / Samsung 970 Pro 1 TB / Intel AX201 ax+BT / Win 11 Pro Phoenix Lite OS / 230 W PSU powered by Prema Mod! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 500mbps.. can get 1 gig....dont need it ill wait till its like 10 gig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reciever Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 I believe this is for intranet, not internet. 1 Telegram / TS3 / Twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron44126 Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 I ran Ethernet all throughout my house a couple of years ago, so all bedrooms and common areas have at least one active Ethernet jack in the wall, connected to a pair of switches running down in the basement with my "server" and AT&T gigabit fiber hookup. But, it's just running 1 Gbps. I did CAT6 so I "should" be able to go faster (all of the runs are less than 100 feet), but I don't have any switches or even endpoints that support a higher speed... 2 Dell Precision 7770 (personal) • Dell Precision 7560 (work) • Full specs in spoiler block below Info posts (Dell) — Dell Precision key posts • Dell driver RSS feeds • Dell Fan Management — override fan behavior Info posts (Windows) — Turbo boost toggle • The problem with Windows 11 • About Windows 10 LTSC Spoiler Dell Precision 7770 (personal) Intel Core i9-12950HX ("Alder Lake"), 8P+8E 8× P cores ("Golden Cove"): 2.3 GHz base, 5.0 GHz turbo, hyperthreading 8× E cores ("Gracemont"): 1.7 GHz base, 3.6 GHz turbo 128GB DDR5-3600 (CAMM) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 16GB (DGFF) Storage: 2TB system drive: Samsung 980 Pro, PCIe4 24TB additional storage: MDRAID, RAID 0 2× 8TB Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus, PCIe4 1× 8TB Inland Performance Plus, PCIe4 Kubuntu 23.04 (KDE Plasma 5.27, Linux kernel 6.2) 17.3" 3940×2160 120 Hz display Intel Wi-Fi AX211 (Wi-Fi 6E + Bluetooth) 93Wh battery IR webcam Fingerprint reader Dell Precision 7560 (work) Intel Xeon W-11955M ("Tiger Lake") 8×2.6 GHz base, 5.0 GHz turbo, hyperthreading ("Willow Cove") 64GB DDR4-3200 ECC NVIDIA RTX A2000 4GB Storage: 512GB system drive (Micron 2300) 4TB additional storage (Sabrent Rocket Q4) Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 15.6" 3940×2160 display Intel Wi-Fi AX210 (Wi-Fi 6E + Bluetooth) 95Wh battery IR webcam Fingerprint reader Previous Dell Precision 7530, 7510, M4800, M6700 Dell Latitude E6520 Dell Inspiron 1720, 5150 Dell Latitude CPi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreeTopsRanch Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 Finally received fiber here in the boonies. Cost me $8000 to do a 1/7th mile underground trench for a conduit to the house. WOW. Still in shock over that cost. BUT, the Fiber people were able to fish the fiber through the conduit and another 200 yards of underground to their pole which they paid for. 1 Gbps and loving it. Now the bad part. The router that they supplied is locked. I can't change any settings except the password. That's the penalty of using their router. Maybe someone here will chime in to tell me what router to purchase later so that I can have control over it. My Netgear router didn't seem to work when I asked if I could use my existing router. It is a DSL router. Maybe that is the issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reciever Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 Well also these days what's often supplied are modem/router combo units. If you aren't able to remove the modem outright then what people tend to do is shut off the routing capability of the unit and provide their own. You will likely need to replace your router if it's from a technical bygone era then it's unlikely to jive with modern standards. Would be interesting to see if it worked as a thought experiment though. Probably best to make a new thread with its own context for your case though Telegram / TS3 / Twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Etern4l Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 If it's a locked up modem/router combo (as seems to be the case), then it would take a major hack to make progress I guess. Really dodgy ISP. "We're rushing towards a cliff, but the closer we get, the more scenic the views are." AI: Major Emerging Existential Threat To Humanity I like you, I just don't like "Likes" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ygohome Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 (edited) Recently purchased a Trendnet TEG-S750 to interconnect a few our our Supermicro servers. It was under $300 USD. It has FIVE RJ45 10Gb BASE-T ports. I'm using between my ESXi Host 4U chassis having 2x10Gb Base-T NICs and the Supermicro Minitower which has 4x10GB Base-T NICs. I use two of the switch's 5 ports to connect the ESXi Host's 2 NICs. I use another two of the switch's 5 ports to connect the Supermicro Minitower. I use the final 5th port to uplink to the router. Very happy with the speeds. For example, nightly backups of 20 VMs from the ESXi storage to the backup repository (incremental with monthly full backups onto rotated backup repository SATA SSDs) are super fast and achieve over 13Gbps across the two pairs of 10Gb NICs to the backup repository on the Supermicro minitower. Edited December 5, 2022 by ygohome corrected part# of the TRENDnet switch 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Custom90gt Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 Dang I used to have one of those little mediasmart servers. It was a great little machine before my plex collection got out of hand. 1 Desktop | Intel i9-12900k | ASUS ROG Strix Z690-F | 2x16GB Oloy DDR5 @ 6400mhz CL32 | EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra | AW3821DW| 980 Pro 1TB PCIe 4.0 | All under water | Server | SM846 | Unraid 6.12.0-rc4.1 | AMD Epyc 7F52 | Supermicro H12SSL-I | Tesla P40 24GB | 256GB 3200MHz ECC 8-channel | 100+TB ZFS | Backup Server | SM826 | Unraid 6.12.0-rc4.1 | AMD Epyc 7302 | Supermicro H11SSL-I | Tesla P4 8GB | 256GB 2133MHz ECC 8-channel | 100+TB ZFS | Dell XPS 9510 | Intel i7-11800H | RTX 3050 Ti | 16GB 3200mhz | 1TB SX8200 | 1080P | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ygohome Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 On 12/4/2022 at 8:21 AM, Custom90gt said: Dang I used to have one of those little mediasmart servers. It was a great little machine before my plex collection got out of hand. The HP Mediasmart server rocks. Its 12+ yrs old now It's been running 24/7/365 for 12 yrs. I've had to replace it's PSU this year when the original finally died. We added a little dongle a long time ago to the motherboard for VGA output so we can get into it's BIOS. It has Linux on it since 2013 and I just updated it a few months ago from Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.3 (which it had been on since 2013) to OEL 7.9. It is acting as an additional backup repository. The OS is on the HP's Disk 1 and the other 3 hotswap trays are 4TB HDDs for full/incremental backups of my physical machines (entire laptop partitions and the other minitower's boot device). The supermicro minitower is the other backup repo for nightly VM backups and also for backing up the HP Mediasmart boot device. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Custom90gt Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 6 hours ago, ygohome said: The HP Mediasmart server rocks. Its 12+ yrs old now It's been running 24/7/365 for 12 yrs. I've had to replace it's PSU this year when the original finally died. We added a little dongle a long time ago to the motherboard for VGA output so we can get into it's BIOS. It has Linux on it since 2013 and I just updated it a few months ago from Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.3 (which it had been on since 2013) to OEL 7.9. It is acting as an additional backup repository. The OS is on the HP's Disk 1 and the other 3 hotswap trays are 4TB HDDs for full/incremental backups of my physical machines (entire laptop partitions and the other minitower's boot device). The supermicro minitower is the other backup repo for nightly VM backups and also for backing up the HP Mediasmart boot device. yep I built the vga output dongle as well to make things easier. It was a great little build, I regret selling it because it would be a nice little backup box. *on edit* I also forgot I upgraded the cpu to a quad core Xeon and added a whopping 4gb of ram to mine, lol. 1 Desktop | Intel i9-12900k | ASUS ROG Strix Z690-F | 2x16GB Oloy DDR5 @ 6400mhz CL32 | EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra | AW3821DW| 980 Pro 1TB PCIe 4.0 | All under water | Server | SM846 | Unraid 6.12.0-rc4.1 | AMD Epyc 7F52 | Supermicro H12SSL-I | Tesla P40 24GB | 256GB 3200MHz ECC 8-channel | 100+TB ZFS | Backup Server | SM826 | Unraid 6.12.0-rc4.1 | AMD Epyc 7302 | Supermicro H11SSL-I | Tesla P4 8GB | 256GB 2133MHz ECC 8-channel | 100+TB ZFS | Dell XPS 9510 | Intel i7-11800H | RTX 3050 Ti | 16GB 3200mhz | 1TB SX8200 | 1080P | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ygohome Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 On 12/5/2022 at 4:37 PM, Custom90gt said: yep I built the vga output dongle as well to make things easier. It was a great little build, I regret selling it because it would be a nice little backup box. *on edit* I also forgot I upgraded the cpu to a quad core Xeon and added a whopping 4gb of ram to mine, lol. Xeon, very cool. We upgraded our ram but still rocking the Pentium E5200 dual core. It's just such a great and compact machine. 1 gigabit NIC to the HP MediaSmart server and works great 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybee83 Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 welp, in theory i could start building a 10gig wired network now with Hyperion under my wing, but yeah...wifey wouldnt approve of long running cables through our appartment, so Wifi it is 😄 1 Mine: Hyperion "Titan God of Heat, Heavenly Light, Power" (2022) AMD Ryzen 9 7950X / Asus ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme / MSI Geforce RTX 4090 Suprim X / G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB DDR5-6600 2x16 GB / Seagate Firecuda 530 4 TB / 2x Samsung 860 Evo 4 TB / Arctic Liquid Freezer II 420 / Seasonic TX-1600 W Titanium / Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2 TG / Samsung Odyssey Neo G8 32" UHD 240 Hz / Ducky One 3 Daybreak Fullsize Cherry MX Brown / Corsair M65 Ultra RGB My Lady's: Clevo NH55JNNQ "Alfred" (2022) Sharp LQ156M1JW03 FHD matte 15.6" IGZO 8 bit @248 Hz / Intel 12600 @ 4.4 - 4.8 Ghz / Nvidia 3070 Ti 8 GB GDDR6 / G.Skill 16 GB DDR4-3800 / Samsung 970 Pro 1 TB / Intel AX201 ax+BT / Win 11 Pro Phoenix Lite OS / 230 W PSU powered by Prema Mod! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kojack Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 I am all wireless besides the connection to my workstation, for right now. I have an old acer mini server that I am going to put 4 8tb drives in some sort of raid array to hold my work / personal documents on. That will also be plugged into my router. I am on bell's fibe network here and love the speed I get on the net both wired and wirelessly. I have 4 extender pods throughout my property now. I have one upstairs to feed my tv's and my wife's office (she works from home full time), I have one out in my son's "apartment" for when he comes to visit, I have one downstairs to feed our tv, music room and gym, and I have the forth out in my garage to provide internet out there and to feed the wired connection to my workshop 700 ft away from my house. We ran gel filled CAT cable down to the shop to provide wireless internet down there. I have had fully wired systems here but I just find them redundant now where everything is wireless and speeds are up to snuff with me. Maybe I will revisit wired connections soon as I have it ran most everywhere in the house. Workstation - Dell XPS 8940 - desktop creative powerhouse Mobile Workstation - Dell inspiron 5406 2 in 1 - mobile creative beast Wifey's Notebook - Dell inspiron 3169 - Little gem for our businesses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 do you have the fibre 3.0? 3gbps? I have primus 75 I get 100mbps but its cheap I can go faster but paying 55mth for long distance home phone and 75 internet its a no brainer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kojack Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 Nope, Just got bell 1gbps. Where I work at bell I get a discount on the service so It's fast enough for what I need, and not breaking the bank. 1 Workstation - Dell XPS 8940 - desktop creative powerhouse Mobile Workstation - Dell inspiron 5406 2 in 1 - mobile creative beast Wifey's Notebook - Dell inspiron 3169 - Little gem for our businesses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Custom90gt Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 On 12/6/2022 at 1:58 PM, ygohome said: Xeon, very cool. We upgraded our ram but still rocking the Pentium E5200 dual core. It's just such a great and compact machine. 1 gigabit NIC to the HP MediaSmart server and works great Well you've inspired me to pick up another Mediasmart EX495 for $50. I threw unraid on it and three 8TB drives and a 12TB in it for a backup server. I also picked up a 4GB stick of memory from ebay for $6 and a 4 core xeon CPU for $8. Right now copying files to the server is CPU limited much more than I expected (average write speed of around 75MB/s even without parity). The 4GB of ram helped a little, but I need to get this Xeon installed ASAP (but first I need to build a new VGA cable and am waiting for parts). Overall a fun trip down memory lane and kind of a cool little backup server. The only bummer is that the guy who owned the server in the past was a smoker and the thing was filthy (no where was it described this way). I spent a good 2-3 hours scrubbing the heck out of it with rubbing alcohol. 1 Desktop | Intel i9-12900k | ASUS ROG Strix Z690-F | 2x16GB Oloy DDR5 @ 6400mhz CL32 | EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra | AW3821DW| 980 Pro 1TB PCIe 4.0 | All under water | Server | SM846 | Unraid 6.12.0-rc4.1 | AMD Epyc 7F52 | Supermicro H12SSL-I | Tesla P40 24GB | 256GB 3200MHz ECC 8-channel | 100+TB ZFS | Backup Server | SM826 | Unraid 6.12.0-rc4.1 | AMD Epyc 7302 | Supermicro H11SSL-I | Tesla P4 8GB | 256GB 2133MHz ECC 8-channel | 100+TB ZFS | Dell XPS 9510 | Intel i7-11800H | RTX 3050 Ti | 16GB 3200mhz | 1TB SX8200 | 1080P | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ygohome Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 On 1/6/2023 at 7:18 PM, Custom90gt said: Well you've inspired me to pick up another Mediasmart EX495 for $50. I threw unraid on it and three 8TB drives and a 12TB in it for a backup server. I also picked up a 4GB stick of memory from ebay for $6 and a 4 core xeon CPU for $8. Right now copying files to the server is CPU limited much more than I expected (average write speed of around 75MB/s even without parity). The 4GB of ram helped a little, but I need to get this Xeon installed ASAP (but first I need to build a new VGA cable and am waiting for parts). Overall a fun trip down memory lane and kind of a cool little backup server. The only bummer is that the guy who owned the server in the past was a smoker and the thing was filthy (no where was it described this way). I spent a good 2-3 hours scrubbing the heck out of it with rubbing alcohol. That is awesome. If you end up needing a replacement PSU I can recommend this one although they say its out of stock at the moment on amazon but you can probably find it elsewhere. HPEX495 350W PSU Replacement The original PSU was 150W I think. This replacement 350W PSU matches the proprietary pin mapping on the connection to the HP motherboard. It has extra molex and SATA power connectors too, which are nice if wanting to attach external devices, but I'll probably not use them so I tucked them in any vacant space I could find along side the PSU. You can see the extra cable wires in the image below. Enjoy your new server. Remember the prices of these when they were new? I think around $750+ they are great 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linux Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 I had 1Gpbs for ages now and i had thoughts about upgrading, but scratched them altogether. Unnecessary and still far too pricey. If my internet connection will be faster than 1Gpbs in the future, i may give it another shot. P.S. My Pixel 6 Pro has actually broken the 1Gpbs barrier via Wifi, but that doesn't count without an actual receiving network device. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Etern4l Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 2.5Gbps is getting pretty affordable these days, and matches up nicely with WiFi 6. Obviously only ever worth considering if there is any significant internal LAN traffic. "We're rushing towards a cliff, but the closer we get, the more scenic the views are." AI: Major Emerging Existential Threat To Humanity I like you, I just don't like "Likes" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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