LAN/NIC problem

[MarkHaysHarris777]

someone on this forum said that due to bus speeds or something on these small board computers that I shouldn't expect to get GbE speeds and that Fast Ethernet is pretty close to the max I can expect? I guess that's not true?

Of course that's not true. At least for A64 used on Pine64+. GbE is connected through RGMII, both USB ports have an own PHY, memory bandwidth is high enough, CPU horsepower is high enough, the ONLY problem are shitty default settings on most of the OS images available for Pine64+. 

Of course it is true.  Speeds above 120mb/s follow the law of diminishing returns. Because of other system latencies on most SBC(s) including the pine boards, in over 95% of use cases 100mb/s is more than sufficient in most situations. 

Tom's continued bashing of the official pine64.pro images for the PineA64 are inaccurate and unfair ( it goes back to an old vendetta between Tom and Lenny, and should just stop ). 

The default settings for most situations and for allmost all use cases are just fine. Inappropriate and profane adjectives describing the default settings are not called for and are for the most part not helpful. To their credit longsleep and lennyraposo have created wonderful images that are both robust and stable ( something difficult to accomplish for most people ) and by and away they have shown to be very high quality having little or no quality issues-- Tom's opinion as a 'database' boy not withstanding. If he wants to use armbian that's ok, but the continued haranging about Lenny's images is getting old.

I think before we can talk about how fast these little boards can go, we should first make them just go-- something many of them are not capable of doing period !