Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Intel is probably still the gold standard. I’d pay a few bucks more to have something much more reliable.

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  • Jesus_666@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ever since the BE200 debacle I don’t know if I can trust Intel to deliver. Sure, the stuff that’s already out there works but who knows if any of their future stuff will?

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    • frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      They’re apparently in talks to sell off their network division. Future there is really up in the air.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yeah, I had a bad experience with one of their other budget WiFi chips too. Maybe their hardware is getting worse, but they at least provide decent drivers.

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  • who@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Intel is probably still the gold standard.

    I guess you’re not familiar with the i225-v and its variants.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That’s too bad. I had a recent bad experience w/ a WiFi card, and I hoped that was a one-off since it was a budget chip. But you and someone else brought up more recent examples, so maybe Intel has lost its NIC crown.

      Who should we look to now? I just want a solid NIC on Linux.

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      • who@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        The Realtek RTL8125B in my year-old motherboard has been doing fine with Linux’s r8169 driver.

        I’ve only used it at 1gbit/second, though; I haven’t tested its 2.5gbit mode.

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