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Re:Available Today: Windows Dev Kit 2023 a.k.a. Project Volt... by megous on Monday October 24, 2022 @03:08PM (#33320993)
Not it's not, even $150 SBCs like odroid-h3 can have 2x 2.5gbit ethernet ports.

For server usecase this is very unbalanced as far as connectivity goes. Say you want to use the modem or wifi for internet access. Modem gives you 5gbit/s and you'll get out to your network just 1gbit. Wasteful, and it needlessly limits the opportnities.

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Re:Available Today: Windows Dev Kit 2023 a.k.a. Project Volt... by kcb on Monday October 24, 2022 @03:31PM (#33321342)
You can put a 2.5gbe adapter on the USB ports I guess.
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Re:Available Today: Windows Dev Kit 2023 a.k.a. Project Volt... by megous on Monday October 24, 2022 @05:41PM (#33323021)
That would likely be stretching the USB interface to the limit. Ethernet is full-duplex, USB is not.

Also this SoC doesn't even seem to have proper publicly available datasheet, and whatever marketing stuff qcom has on their website doesn't list USB at all, lol. So for all I care it can have just one host controller. Not interested in SoC with no datasheets, when it's not possible to answer basic questions about the SoC, like how many USB host controllers it has...

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Re:Available Today: Windows Dev Kit 2023 a.k.a. Project Volt... by smileybarry on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @09:56AM (#33330509)
USB 3.x is full-duplex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_3.0
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Re:Available Today: Windows Dev Kit 2023 a.k.a. Project Volt... by megous on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @01:23PM (#33333526)
Hm. Thanks for clarification.
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