10Gig Ethernet Card
 

Can someone recommend a 10Gig RJ45 Ethernet card for £100 or under please?

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There are a couple on Amazon, but what do you need a 10G card for ?

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we are looking to upgrade our wired network.

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don't forget to upgrade all the cabling as well. A card alone won't do it.

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Not always.

10GB over good quality CAT5 over short distances and longer can be fine if terminated correctly.

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A single card probably wont do much anyway, regardless of the wiring.
You [obviously] need both the sender and receiver to be 10G to get full speed.
(and the equipment they are connected to has to be able to handle such speeds)

I'd love to know what you are doing on a home network to even needs that sort of speed.

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I would like 10Gb but the cost of updating file servers, computers, POE Switches, firewall etc, scary.

If we look at the time taken to get from 50Mb to 1Gb, how long will it take to get from 1Gb to 3Gb which would then make it all worthwhile.

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Nothing wrong with future-proofing. Even if you have 3x 1Gb devices, they could still need a total of 3Gb running down the same cable.

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All my cabling is Cat 7.

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All our PCs are gonna get a 10gb ethernet card and im buying my son a 10gb switch for his birthday thats what he wants. Also gonna get a router with 10gb ports.

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Your best bet in terms of cost, is not to use RJ45 as this works out very expensive. Mellanox ConnectX-3 cards can be had on ebay in about the £50 range, these can then be used with SFP+ DACs, which are cheap cables for devices close together ( https://www.fs.com/uk/c/10g-sfp-dac-1114 ) or with cheap 10G SFP+ MMF modules ( https://www.fs.com/uk/products/11552.html ) for linking longer runs.

If you want/need to stay with copper for a particular run, you can use RJ45 DACs, these are much more expensive tho ( https://www.fs.com/uk/products/66613.html for 30m, 80m ones are ~£65)

I have a 10G mellanox card in both my main PC and my server, and a cheap 10G switch ( https://linitx.com/product/mikrotik-...1g-4s+in/15664 ) that links the two, and provides a 1G port linking to the rest of my network.

The Mellanox ConnectX-2 cards also work well, and are even cheaper, but are very old now, so not much updated driver support for them.

10G networking is really good, and it means I can do things like have all the storage drives in my sever, and use iSCSI to mount them, meaning my desktop can be in a smaller case with no spinning rust. Very glad I upgraded.

I get pretty decent throughput as well: https://www.cableforum.uk/images/local/2021/02/3.png