I just had fiber installed yesterday and got a 3Gbit plan.
The modem provided by the ISP has 1x 10GbE port and 4x gigabit ports.
I got a 10GbE NIC for my Synology NAS, which is installed right beside my modem.
However my PC is sitting at the opposite end of a 30m+ Cat5 run. The silver lining is there’s a pair of them.
Can I bond them somehow to make them a single 5GbE port?I haven’t bought a switch or router yet.
Considering the Mikrotik crs317-1g-16s+: https://www.ispsupplies.ca/MikroTik-RouterBOARD-CRS317-1G-16SRM
If you want 10G performance, you need to get a 10G nic. They are only 30-40$ on ebay.
While, you CAN bond a pair of 2.5GBe ports, and POTENTIALLY get 5g of throughput, it will not be on a single session. ie- you can’t download a file at 5Gbps.
10G hardware is cheap.