NIC swap help
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Well then should be able to take this card, but it in a different machine and only see the 240mbps rate than... Since this card has aged and now can not run as fast it was designed too... Is what he is saying is happening.
And not just this card - all cards do this while running windows... But here is the thing, guess they are cahoots with the makers of freebsd to slow down nics over time... Or maybe its just the nic makers wanting users to buy new nics..
I have no idea what the root of the issue was - but its not freaking that nics slow down over time... Sorry its just not, I don't care what he says is happening... I have too many years working with multiple oses, multiple nics, all kinds of hardware both pc based, server based... Going back to dos and windows 3.11 days - before there was even tcp networks... Never in all my years ever seen such a thing... If it was a thing it would be all over the internet - users complaining that they have to swap out their PC every year, or nic because it "slows" down - which we all know is just not the case..
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Mmm, were the old ports em and the new igb? You would always have to re-assign them in that case.
Steve
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The old ones were em and the new ones igb. I ended up returning those nics and buying directly from netgate. One of the amazon nics would show up in pfsense but would not pass any data. Save yourselves the time and hassle of buying cheap knockoffs and just go for the good stuff even though it may cost more. The one thing I am surprised at is the netgate nics are tiny. For $200 each I thought they would at least be a decent size. They are less than half the length of my old pro/1000 nics. Also maybe offer them with the full size bracket pre installed so users don't have to swap them. Just wondering, are the netgate nics based off the i350-t4 or i350-t4v2. Thanks.
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Now in this case it is not the "size" that matters :-)
The size of the PCB depends on the component density of the cards and the ideas of the engineers designing the circuit.
The front of the cards is most often interchangeable with a full-size and half-size adapter plate.
Hmmm, if I remember correctly we have already talked about the right source of purchase above.
Amazon is not a typical quality hardware retailer site.
I'm glad you resolved the issue without community help.
