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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  • HTTP_404_NotFoundBEnglish
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    9 months ago

    If you want 10G performance, you need to get a 10G nic. They are only 30-40$ on ebay.

    While, you CAN bond a pair of 2.5GBe ports, and POTENTIALLY get 5g of throughput, it will not be on a single session. ie- you can’t download a file at 5Gbps.

    10G hardware is cheap.

  • kY2iB3yH0mN8wI2hBEnglish
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    9 months ago

    yes and no.

    you might be able to bond two connection but it is preferable to use LACP and that is normally not available on standard windows drivers / NICs.

    on top of that you’re internet speed won’t go beyond 2.5G for a single session. lets say you download games from stream = you will be limited to 2.5G. But you might be able to download a game from steam at 2.5G/s and another one from EA at 2.5G.

    also bear in mind that no HD will be able to save things at 3G/s and a SSD might be able to saturate it f you’re lucky.

    if you decided to get a 3G connection you must have been thinking about 10G all the way?

    • AnomalyNexusBEnglish
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      9 months ago

      3G/s and a SSD might be able to saturate it f you’re lucky.

      The one is bits the other is bytes ;)

      Network…3 gigabits, while a decent nvme gen 4 can do 4-5 gigabytes

      Even old SATA connected SSDs should be able to keep up if you don’t buy trash.

      • kY2iB3yH0mN8wI2hBEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Most ppl might even have spinning drives, they can do ~100 Mbyte/s…
        Some have upgraded to SSD, that can do up to ~500 Mbyte/s.
        And a few have upgraded to NVME, most are in the range of 1000-2500 Mbytes/s

        All these numbers are for fresh new drives.

        3 Gigabit = 375 MBytes/s. Yes I can do the math!

    • HaladaOPBEnglish
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      9 months 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?