Add 10 GbE to your system with an M.2 2280 module

Re:Add 10 GbE to your system with an M.2 2280 module by Jnr on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @07:59AM (#29993009)

Oh, and I would never actually use the copper cables with RJ45 for anything above 1 gigabit. Those ethernet cards heat up a lot, use too much energy. This would be a bad investment. Get a proper patch or optical cables and use SFP+ instead.

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Re:Add 10 GbE to your system with an M.2 2280 module by virtuallynathan on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @08:47AM (#29993559)

I’ve never had this as a problem, and I use 50-100ft of Cat5e + 10GBaseT SFP+’s… it’s well within the thermal limits of the SFP, which probably uses 2-5W.

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Re:Add 10 GbE to your system with an M.2 2280 module by simcop2387 on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @10:15AM (#29994614)

I'm surprised you're able to get anything reasonable for 10G over any modest length of cat5e, i made a few attempts at doing it for fun when i was upgrading some of my stuff and could only get anything to work with cat6 at a minimum for more than a few meters.

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