I just had fiber installed yesterday and got a 3Gbit plan.

The modem provided by the ISP has 1x 10GbE port and 4x gigabit ports.

I got a 10GbE NIC for my Synology NAS, which is installed right beside my modem.

However my PC is sitting at the opposite end of a 30m+ Cat5 run. The silver lining is there’s a pair of them.

Can I bond them somehow to make them a single 5GbE port?I haven’t bought a switch or router yet.

Considering the Mikrotik crs317-1g-16s+: https://www.ispsupplies.ca/MikroTik-RouterBOARD-CRS317-1G-16SRM

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  • HaladaOPBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Honestly even 1GbE would have been a nice upgrade after being on 400/50 cable for more than a decade.

    But the ISP was like you can have 3GbE for $10 more… and got seduced.

    My soon to be 40 year old ass doesn’t want a Mustang or a sports car, but I do want a fully functional Darth Vader costume and lightning speeeeeed Internet please.

    I could serve 20x 4K remuxes to my Plex users and still not come close to saturate a 3Gbit link, that’s just cray cray.

    I think I will settle on a 2.5Gbe NIC in the PC for now and just run a Cat6 cable eventually. Some drywall will have to come off but its not a terrible job.

    Is the Mikrotik crs317-1g-16s+ a good choice?