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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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[–] kY2iB3yH0mN8wI2h@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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?

[–] AnomalyNexus@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] kY2iB3yH0mN8wI2h@alien.top 1 points 11 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!

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