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Ejik2
Aspirant
May 07, 2025

2.5GBe USB LAN

 I have an old Ultra2 2Gb RAM running 6.10.9 OS. NAS is working great but 1Gb LAN is a bottleneck. I've bought cheap 2.5GBe USB LAN adapter based on realtek chip, attached to USB3 port and installed ...
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schumaku
Guru - Experienced User
May 07, 2025

This limitation to about 80 Mb/s vs the "full' Gigabit Ethernet must be somewhere on the USB side of that NAS. Strongly doubt ad-hoc driver installations are possible anyway for various reasons...

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Ejik2
Aspirant
May 08, 2025

Good point... Just tried dd from external HDD connected to USB3 and got ~106 MB/s. Not sure is it HDD or USB limitation, do not have SSD to check...

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