Hi all, I’ve recently purchased quite a cheap SFP to RJ45 Adapter from Amazon, its did however have some very good reviews and hardly any negative ones especially around performance. I’ve noticed although it works, it does drop packets which causes VPN issues when WFH.
Is anyone aware of tests that I could run that would eliminate the Adapter over the port, I think I can only use the one SFP port as LAN too, although as I type this I’m going off to check that as well..
and suggestions welcome as I don’t want to spend out on a new adapter only to find the issues was with the route 10, although I doubt it will be.
As I thought you can use the other port, and that seems to work with no packet drops on a simple ping test, I’ll leave it in for a few hours and see if it continues to behave.
It is possible to reconfigure both SFP ports for either LAN or WAN (in any combo).
At what data rate are you connected to your modem (assuming the SFP → RJ45 is for WAN)? The reason for asking is that higher data rate connections can be much more sensitive to cable/connection issues.
Yeah, probably should’ve mentioned that its fine on the non SFP ports, I was using these until lately but some new devices have meant I needed to use the SPF port (yes I should’ve bought a bigger switch ). I’ll monitor and report back in a couple of days, Its a work VPN so is quite noticeable when Teams etc keeps dropping
I did some further testing using IPERF and of course using both SFP ports and running 60 second tests it didn’t have any issues at all, I then just left a ping running for 30 minutes again once on each of the SFP ports and gain no issues. Will see what happens in a real world test as my wife is WFH tomorrow and will be using it for Teams etc
). I’ll monitor and report back in a couple of days, Its a work VPN so is quite noticeable when Teams etc keeps dropping