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  1. TheLostSwede

    Asus AX86U Pro AX and AC on 5ghz band working with Mediatek chipsets but not Intel

    What? Yes, the range will be poop at 25 mW, but channel 149-173 are supported. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels#5_GHz_(802.11a/h/n/ac/ax/be) I would agree that most routers don't support that range, but that's a different matter.
  2. TheLostSwede

    Router bricked

    Had a similar experience when I RMA:ed a router with them, but that was at one of their service centres.
  3. TheLostSwede

    Intel I225-V and network switches

    Dumb switches can in general not be upgraded firmware wise and the only way to upgrade the firmware on an onboard NIC is to upgrade the motherboard UEFI/BIOS.
  4. TheLostSwede

    Intel I225-V and network switches

    I can recommend the TRENDnet TEG-S380 V2.0R, low power, small formfactor, decent price and so far it has not missed a beat. Can't tell you how well it works with the Intel chips though, as I have disabled my onboard Intel i225-V.
  5. TheLostSwede

    ..

    Good for you, but Intel screwed up their 2.5 Gbps Ethernet chips, so those are best avoided, which is what this thread stared out about, but you seem to love to derail discussions and talk about something irrelevant.
  6. TheLostSwede

    ..

    That's not your NIC, that's something else. I get 10 Gbps out of my Aquantia cards, or at least as close as you get minus the overheads.
  7. TheLostSwede

    [RECOMMENDATION] Router supporting 2.5+gbps WAN/LAN

    Bad idea in terms of how much power it uses just to route some network traffic, but hey, if you have free electricity.
  8. TheLostSwede

    [RECOMMENDATION] Router supporting 2.5+gbps WAN/LAN

    Sorry, but 1. how is this relevant to the OP's question and 2. why is this relevant when we're talking modern hardware? Don't buy old 2nd hand junk. 3. Do you have a reading comprehension problem or do you not understand what modern means?
  9. TheLostSwede

    [RECOMMENDATION] Router supporting 2.5+gbps WAN/LAN

    Launch Date Q1'12 <- NOT modern. If the PCIe bus isn't PCIe 3.0 x4 or better, it's not a modern 10 Gbps card, as rule of thumb. https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/58954/intel-ethernet-converged-network-adapter-x540-t2.html
  10. TheLostSwede

    [RECOMMENDATION] Router supporting 2.5+gbps WAN/LAN

    All modern 10 Gbps cards supports Nbase-T.
  11. TheLostSwede

    [RECOMMENDATION] Router supporting 2.5+gbps WAN/LAN

    You also have the GT-AX6000 and TUF-AX6000 in addition to the ones already mentioned. If 2.5 Gbps is all that matters, you also have the TP-link Archer BE230 which can be had for under €100/$100.
  12. TheLostSwede

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    The AQC-107 was announced at the end of 2016, if they haven't gotten to a stage of stable drives seven years later, it wouldn't have become as popular of a solution as it has. There were some compatibility issues early on with AMD's Ryzen platform, but Aquantia fixed that within a few weeks...
  13. TheLostSwede

    Asus Router only reaching 300MBPS.

    Don't confuse cable modems with copper wires. Ethernet can do 10 Gbps over copper. DOCSIS which is the standard for cable modems, hasn't been capable of symmetric speeds, but up to 1-2 Gbps, a DOCSIS 3.1 modem can do it. DOCSIS 4 supports upload speeds of up to 6 Gbps, both 3.1 and 4 can do...
  14. TheLostSwede

    Asus Router only reaching 300MBPS.

    So many people seem to get screwed by their ISP's. Got a friend in Australia that 1 Gbps/5 Mbps at one point and the upload was so slow that it prevented him from using the download properly. You seem to be in a similar situation. What's the point of these crappy asymmetric speeds?
  15. TheLostSwede

    Is now the time to go to 5 Gbps or 10 Gbps home networking?

    Realtek has had a "cheap" 10 Gbps switching IC for a few years now and it's what is already used in a lot of the low cost SFP+ switches. The issue is the PHY side of things, as there isn't a low cost 10 Gbps PHY as yet, but based on my chats with Realtek at Computex, it's something they're...
  16. TheLostSwede

    Real life utility of SoC speed and RAM size in routers

    I'd say that RISC-V isn't quite there today, but give it a year or two. I would say Realtek might be the first to try this, as they've always been about cost and Arm cores are costly in terms of licensing.
  17. TheLostSwede

    Real life utility of SoC speed and RAM size in routers

    It does matter though, at least when you step away from that "basic" router you mention, which most users here do. Once you want to do VPN or storage or anything outside of just routing data, the CPU core(s) really matter.
  18. TheLostSwede

    Real life utility of SoC speed and RAM size in routers

    Keep in mind that WiFi has become a lot more complex with things like MU-MIMO, MLO, more advanced encryption and a bunch of other things that has lead to more complex router hardware as a whole. However, if you look at the development of the CPU in the router, we haven't moved very far in the...
  19. TheLostSwede

    Real life utility of SoC speed and RAM size in routers

    This is mostly true for Broadcom based hardware, whereas MTK and QCA have at least traditionally, done the WiFi offloading on the main SoC. This might well have changed with more recent WiFi standards, but Broadcom appears to have gone for the beefiest hardware in the WiFi chips compared to its...
  20. TheLostSwede

    Asus Router only reaching 300MBPS.

    Try the speed test built into the router. Also, what speed internet are you paying for?
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