What is Best USB NIC 10Gbps that is supported by Pfsense?

@johnpoz said in What is Best USB NIC 10Gbps that is supported by Pfsense?:

I would think such a setup more the user dicking with it..

We were over there chatting Yesterday afternoon. She couldn't change anything even if she wanted to. Totally non technical.

It is all backward compatible. Her stuff works fine. She'll let me look at it sometime today or tomorrow so I'll see what this Arris POS is all about then.

Reality is, Spectrum really does suck that badly. They just don't give a flying F about anything. They freaking scheduled a 6 hour outage in the middle of the day a few weeks ago for "maintenance". Not like anyone is working from home or doing remote learning...

I looked at the WiFi 6 specs, one of the things is the ability to bond non adjacent channels. I guess that is useful...

Paint

If you read this review, it talks about how these adapters have driver issues and dont actually perform much better than 3gbps. When I played around with the 5gbps usb-c adapter from QNAP with my 10gbe network, I had similar driver issues. The adapter would drop if I transferred large files for 15 minutes or more - the only way to get the adapter to reconnect would be to reboot the machine.

https://www.servethehome.com/trendnet-tuc-et5g-usb-type-c-to-5gbe-nic-review/

Sergei_Shablovsky

@paint said in What is Best USB NIC 10Gbps that is supported by Pfsense?:

@johnpoz said in What is Best USB NIC 10Gbps that is supported by Pfsense?:

@paint said in What is Best USB NIC 10Gbps that is supported by Pfsense?:

You can get brocade switches pretty cheap

And what do they draw for power? While that is great if a lab and only on X hours a week.. But old enterprise gear is not power friendly ;) Just what I don't want is some switch drawing 150W ;)

ethernet cat 5 cannot deliver good performance anymore

5e can do 5gbps.. And reported even 10ge for short distances.. But when I do go 10g, it will most likely be fiber.. I just want the copper support for 2.5 and 5gig..

At some point would like to see atleast 2.5 on my APs - and sure don't want to have to rerun cable in the attic - which is 5e..

These pull much less than 150w.....

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/brocade-icx-series-cheap-powerful-10gbe-40gbe-switching.21107/

My vote to used Brocade with fiber connection: perfect quality and stable working.