You could do NIC teaming and get 10gb/s overall (on the network link - idk how they route USB/NIC/PCIe/etc.). You wouldn't get that on a single connection that way, though. You'd have to either be content with multiple connections, or not team them and use a multi-path aware protocol like iSCSI.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm curious how close your total throughput would be to the theoretical 10Gb/s, assuming it was used with a switch that could keep up. Protocol overhead with Ethernet/TCP/IP is bad enough without NIC teaming to say nothing of the total throughput of the Thunderbolt transceiver

[–] SteveTech@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't know if I'll remember, but I'll be able to try this in a few days, I have the same laptop, 2x 2.5G USB NICs + another 2 already in the mail, and also a 10G network.

If you're wondering, my intention for ordering them definitely wasn't for this, but more just for places around the house I can plug into, without having the framework NIC hanging off my laptop.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm invested now. Definitely report back!

[–] slice@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

Same