Need Help Finding a 5GBASE-T nic
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Hey Yall!
As the title says I am trying to find a 5GBASE-T nic that works in pfsense plus. I tried a x550-t2 but that did not work for me.
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The x550-t is the most commonly reported working. How did it fail for you?
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For me it wont negotiate the 5 gig speed at all or go into that unknown state. This is with me also trying to force the connection to 5G from the other end on the BGW320-500 that ATT provides.
I did update the NVM of the card to 3.6 but no luck also.
Furthermore running a speedtest, I can see it being limited at 1 gig
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Are you able to test the NIC is capable of that in Linux or Windows?
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Yes, when I plugged it into a windows 10 machine I was able to see that it supported 2.5 and 5 speeds in intel proset. If you would like I can actually test that it would link at those speeds.
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The x710-t2 is also reported to link at nbase speeds:
https://forum.netgate.com/post/973940I don't have either of those cards to check unfortunately.
Steve
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Hmm sounds like I need to dig around more, I tried some more stuff with the x550-t2 and no luck. Gonna return it and think of my options. Is there anyway to find out if/what cards pfsense supports for 5GB speeds?
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I found a solution that works!
Mikrotik as a really cool SFP+ module that can do 1/2.5/5/10GB speeds. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078SNK1MY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I used an x520-DA2 and boom, to pfsense it looks like its a TWINAX 10 Gig connection but to the BGW320-500 it looks like 5 Full duplex, super neat.
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Oh, that's interesting. Never seen that before.
