Realtek 10 GbE USB Adapters might be on the way?
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Good to know. The old Thunderbolt 3 10 Gbps adapters were enough to burn skin if you weren't careful, and a lot of the newer USB 3/4 adapters weren't much better.
I have been waiting for an x4 variant to show up but got sick of waiting
so ordered one earlier £21 + £3 delivery + 4.xx Tax will use it in my Z790 that has 4.0 slots will be replacing an AQC113
My Z390 im going to have to keep waiting
Can anyone explain what's the point of USB network adapter? Or 10Gb one specifically. Even the cheapest notebooks have 2,5Gbit NICs onboard. I doubt that's not enough for most people.
Or, disregarding the last troll, let me rephrase my question, because maybe I missed something: what's the point of a network card/adapter/whatever connected via USB cable? I know there are adapters you plug into USB when there are special requirements like onboard one dying, ultra think notebooks that only have wifi, but outside of that, I don't understand the point, and even less so a 10bit variant of this. I mean, shouldn't a network adapter connect through PCIe?
Can anyone elaborate?
Can anyone elaborate?
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Im not trolling i just cant believe you would ask such a stupid question
and cant think it through enough to understand why its required sometimes
I will give you one simple example where one would desire one
You have a HP ZBook Power G8 with an i9-11950H TigerLake
with an onboard 1Gbps NIC
but your internal lan is 10Gbps
and can simply plug this in and job done i have 10Gbps to said laptop
There are many more scenario's but i will leave that to your rather large imagination
Dont mistake pointing and laughing at you as trolling
Shame is there for a reason
and cant think it through enough to understand why its required sometimes
I will give you one simple example where one would desire one
You have a HP ZBook Power G8 with an i9-11950H TigerLake
with an onboard 1Gbps NIC
but your internal lan is 10Gbps
and can simply plug this in and job done i have 10Gbps to said laptop
There are many more scenario's but i will leave that to your rather large imagination
Dont mistake pointing and laughing at you as trolling
Shame is there for a reason
Congratulations, you showed your true self even better now.
P.S. At least I mostly don't fail at punctuation and grammar, and I'm not even native english speaker.
P.S. At least I mostly don't fail at punctuation and grammar, and I'm not even native english speaker.
Because most modern high-end laptops don't have built-in wired NICs at all.
They simply have a hard time fitting them in the thinner designs. Also, if they do have wired NICs, they are probably slower than this.As an example, my last two work laptops (as well as my personal laptop) didn't/don't have RJ45 ports, nor do the laptops I can think of off the top of my head that belong to friends and family. I'd go as far as to call RJ45 ports on laptops pretty rare at this point in time.
There are many situations where higher than 2.5 Gbps might be useful. Video editing from a server, loading large 3D models, backups, and a bunch of other work related stuff.
I think one person in my office managed to get a laptop with a wired ethernet port, for the rest of us there's a pile of USB adapters to connect to all the wired equipment, and we do copy some large files, so I imagine if anyone had a laptop with the correct USB port they would like a 10G adapter, for now 2.5G is adequate.
Thank you.Because most modern high-end laptops don't have built-in wired NICs at all.
As an example, my last two work laptops (as well as my personal laptop) didn't/don't have RJ45 ports, nor do the laptops I can think of off the top of my head that belong to friends and family. I'd go as far as to call RJ45 ports on laptops pretty rare at this point in time.
There are many situations where higher than 2.5 Gbps might be useful. Video editing from a server, loading large 3D models, backups, and a bunch of other work related stuff.
I just couldn't imagine a notebook that is so powerful it can do work that requires 10Gbit network interface, or perhaps why would one do such work on a notebook in the first place.
Plenty of things that can benefit from 10G don't require all that much CPU, pulling docker containers or pushing artifacts to s3, I regularly exceed 2.5G in such operations on my laptop, which only has a Ultra 7 165U, using my 25G thunderbolt dock.
You want to edit video in 4K or higher directly off your NAS. Your laptop has the horsepower to edit the video, because it's 2025, but also because it's 2025, there's no onboard ethernet, and certainly no onboard 10 GbE. WiFi is not suitable for doing this sort of work.
Why do you have a laptop? You travel between two offices (one of them might be your home; both of them might be in your home, whatever). In 2025, laptops are powerful enough to replace desktops for most use cases that don't need a lot of built in storage or internal expandability (PCIe slots).
Also: the other huge market for these is mini PCs, which are increasingly displacing desktop workstations (and laptops in some cases), and tend not to have PCIe or greater than 2.5 GbE networking.
You have a 20 Gbps USB port on your laptop or mini PC. This is the adapter you buy to get 10 GbE.
If Realtek (or any company) releases a product like this, they know there's a market. They're not going to waste their time on releasing expensive niche products; they're not that kind of company.
My order showed up today. No surprises so far and it works well in Windows 11 with iperf3 and Speedtest. Haven’t tested in Linux yet, but that’s next on my list.
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My RTL8127 also turned up a few weeks ago its a solid card
Build quality is good box looked good wol works
speed is solid
Going to get a RTL8127AT when someone releases one (3.0x2 or 4.0x1) for an older pc with only PCIe 3.0 Ports
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Thanks! I am feel pretty good with the X710-da2 and x710-t2l that i got for cheap recently. They work well even PCIE3x4 slot.
Good to know these other options are becoming available.
Good to know these other options are becoming available.