Dedicated network card and controller to get full throughput.

[shirishag75]

I read somewhere but don't remember that regular motherboards may claim anything but in reality they offer say at the most 50% of the throughput they say they will give. For instance, say an ASUS PRIME B550M-K Motherboard. Even if you had CAT-8 cable to handle the network throughput and you had a service that had 1 Gbps (AFAIK no such service exists in India, at least for common man). Even then you won't get 1 Gbps, at the most we would get 500 mbps. To get the full throughput you need a dedicated network card and controller dedicated for the same.

Would be interesting to know if somebody has done any testing on the same and what were their results or observations.

Mod, feel free to push the post wherever you think is a better corner for this.

 

[TheNuttyNet]

First of all a lot of ISPs are providing gigabit connections (Jio, Airtel, Tata, ACT, OneBroadband etc) in major cities
Now about NIC on motherboard, if it is a gigabit and the connection is as per standards (even CAT6 is capable of 10gbps so if your cable is of good quality it should work easily for 1gbps throughput)

People are easily consuming 600-700mbps throughput over wifi here in India now

You question is very relevant for 2.5gbps connections since no ISP offers 2.5gbps connection right now and the hardware is not readily available like GPON or cheap routers with 2.5gig lan ports

So a lot of hurdles for that

 

[vishalrao]

I get the full theoretical 1 gbps which is actually 940 mbps real world on all my gigabit ports on all devices, motherboard LAN port, router, ont, switch, WiFi mesh APs etc , even mobile phone WiFi 5 and 6...

This is local traffic using tool like iperf3 and no dedicated network card.

If you are using linux there was a known regression in intel LAN port chipset which is recently fixed maybe in kernel 6.3 or upcoming 6.4