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Could I add an extra lan to usb and have two lan ports for double the transfer rate?
I don't think Windows has much (if any) support for link aggregation.
What you could do is get a small multigig smart switch, and then put a 10 gig card in the PC. If it's a laptop or an all-in-one, you could maybe use a 10 gig USB-C/Thunderbolt adapter - though I have no personal experience with those. Cost would be in the $300-$400 range for the switch and PC NIC. You do need a cat-6 cable for the switch->PC leg at least.
On the NAS end, you'd set up the switch to use a static LAG and the NAS to use round-robin.
Not sure I'd do this with a Pro-6 though. It's more advantageous if you have a NAS with 10 gig built in (RN52x or better).
I could run one cat6 to each and do round robin bind for eth0 and 1?
AFAIK Microsoft doesn't include support for link aggregation in "consumer" versions of windows - it's only in Windows Server. There might be some third party solutions out there I guess.
When you said you only saw thunderbolt adapters -- you mean for 10G, right? why not use two usb2 1G adapters since total is 2G not 10G or does this require a single adapter with 2G or greater?
So if I'm using Windows 10 -- even though it doesn't support LAG -- I can still use a Thunderbolt 3 10G and LAG managed switch and i can support both lan ports via static or dynamic link aggregation? Why is round robin used in bonding not 802.3ad in the ethernet bonding settings?
Is the limitation software (windows 10 OS) or hardware?
Why is round robin used in bonding not 802.3ad in the ethernet bonding settings?
LACP is it's own mode. The only thing you can configure on the NAS is the hash mode (which doesn't affect performance much). LACP was designed for "trunking" multiple client connections between switches (or between a switch and a server). With 2 gigabit NICs it can deliver two gigabit data flows to different clients, but it won't deliver a 2 gigabit data flow to a single client. A static LAG in the switch and round-robin in the NAS will deliver a 2 gigabit data flow.
The GS105E doesn't support link aggregation. The GS108T does. Though if you want 10 gigabit from the PC you'll need a multigig switch like the Nighthawk SX10.
The Thunderbolt adapter is one that I saw too. I've never used one of those, so I don't have any personal experience with them.
