Desktop hardware three-in-one, in the previous text we mentioned PCIe adapter for solid state drives, where did the old SSDs go? Of course there was no waste, were any of them broken, disassembled and installed on the newly purchased ‘MechMaker Mini-3765H’ (bought a year ago).
The new machine has powerful hardware specifications: 2.5G dual network interface, PCIe4.0, WiFi6.
Recently moved house and my room doesn’t have a dedicated router for networking, all the machines are connected via wireless network; the ASUS motherboard desktop wireless card performance wasn’t great, or perhaps it was the router’s wireless access, which resulted in slow upload speeds between local networks, leading to poor network speeds between the machines. I purchased a 2.5G NIC and installed it on the desktop.
Thus, all the slots on the motherboard are now full: graphics card, wireless card, 2.5G NIC, PCIe adapter for solid state drives.
Network Instructions
Both machines connect to the internet using their original wireless network cards, but are directly connected via Ethernet cables between the two, with both ends equipped with 2.5G network cards. The specifics of how to physically connect the cables aren’t detailed here – numerous tutorials are available online; just remember to disable your firewall. You can select either machine as the gateway.
graph TD;
A[Machine 1<br>IP: 192.168.4.1<br>Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0<br>Default Gateway: - <br>Obtain DNS Automatically] -->|Ethernet Connection (2.5G)| B[Machine 2<br>IP: 192.168.4.2<br>Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0<br>Default Gateway: 192.168.4.1<br>Obtain DNS Automatically];
A -->|Wireless Card| Internet;
B -->|Wireless Card| Internet;
Two Subnet Speed Testing
Router LAN
C:\Users\core\Desktop\iperf-3.1.3-win32>iperf3.exe -c 192.168.3.237
Connecting to host 192.168.3.237, port 5201
[ 4] local 192.168.3.122 port 1656 connected to 192.168.3.237 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.00-1.00 sec 9.17 MBytes 76.7 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 1.00-2.00 sec 9.91 MBytes 83.2 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 2.00-3.00 sec 8.74 MBytes 73.3 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 3.00-4.00 sec 10.2 MBytes 85.2 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 4.00-5.00 sec 9.23 MBytes 77.1 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 5.00-6.00 sec 8.80 MBytes 73.9 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 6.00-7.01 sec 8.00 MBytes 66.8 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 7.01-8.00 sec 7.69 MBytes 64.9 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 8.00-9.01 sec 9.72 MBytes 81.1 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 9.01-10.01 sec 7.63 MBytes 63.6 Mbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.00-10.01 sec 89.0 MBytes 74.6 Mbits/sec sender
[ 4] 0.00-10.01 sec 89.0 MBytes 74.6 Mbits/sec receiver
iperf Done.
Direct LAN Connection
C:\Users\core\Desktop\iperf-3.1.3-win32>iperf3.exe -c 192.168.4.1
Connecting to host 192.168.4.1, port 5201
[ 4] local 192.168.4.2 port 1524 connected to 192.168.4.1 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.00-1.01 sec 178 MBytes 1.48 Gbits/sec
[ 4] 1.01-2.00 sec 204 MBytes 1.72 Gbits/sec
[ 4] 2.00-3.00 sec 214 MBytes 1.80 Gbits/sec
[ 4] 3.00-4.00 sec 229 MBytes 1.92 Gbits/sec
[ 4] 4.00-5.00 sec 202 MBytes 1.69 Gbits/sec
[ 4] 5.00-6.00 sec 213 MBytes 1.79 Gbits/sec
[ 4] 6.00-7.00 sec 230 MBytes 1.93 Gbits/sec
[ 4] 7.00-8.00 sec 192 MBytes 1.61 Gbits/sec
[ 4] 8.00-9.00 sec 220 MBytes 1.84 Gbits/sec
[ 4] 9.00-10.00 sec 230 MBytes 1.93 Gbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 2.06 GBytes 1.77 Gbits/sec sender
[ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 2.06 GBytes 1.77 Gbits/sec receiver
iperf Done.