New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper

Re:New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper by hnlmorg on Saturday April 25, 2026 @06:32AM (#47900320)

Isn’t that only relevant for network topologies that rely heavily on broadcasting to multiple nodes. Eg token ring, WiFi and powerline adapters?

For regular Ethernet, the switch will have a table of which IPs are on which NIC and thus can dynamically send packets at the right transmission protocols supported by those NICs without degrading the service of other NICs.

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Re:New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper by hdgvhicv on Saturday April 25, 2026 @06:41AM (#47900377)

I’ve seen some vlans hit 1mbit BUM filters, I think we had about 800 users on that one. To saturate a 10m link would require a help of a lot of broadcast traffic.

100m is fine. 10m is fine but I can’t think of anything that negotiates 10m other than maybe WOL (I don’t use it enough to be sure from memory).

If I didn ahve something esoteric it would be on a specialised vlan anyway.

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Re:New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper by namibj on Sunday April 26, 2026 @12:44AM (#47907419)

10m is extended reach copper, you can do about triple the range of 100m with approximately the same transceiver analog prowess.

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