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

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  • XPav@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Try and run 2.5 and 5 and 10GbE over the Cat5. Theres a good chance it’ll work.

    • MarxJ1477@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t know why I never thought to just try it out before. Popped in a 10GBaseT module and switched over my mac studio and sure enough, it’s running just fine at 10Gb on a cat 5e run.