tmaiaroto
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5 years ago Well, despite not having FA, I can get the full gigabit speed (or pretty darn close at 905d/913u). I just tried from a faster machine. Surprisingly a Surface Pro isn't getting gigabit even with the gigabit Ethernet adapter. I would say I feel cheated for the cost of the USB adapter, but it certainly is faster than wifi and many other USB Ethernet adapters aren't gigabit, they're 100mbps. So I guess the USB Ethernet still has value.
Good to know I don't "need" FA...but regardless, I'm still curious if it's something that should be ok to use and if it leads to more consistent performance benefits.
I have to turn something on to disable FA. Right now I chose some feature under aiprotection. Traffic monitoring would also disable FA and I noticed I could turn off aiprotection (contrary to the readme). ... So is this what's going on? Is it not so much aiprotect doing something as it is the disabling of FA?
The readme talks about the hardware acceleration...but I realized that with CTF + FA ("level 2" I guess) it doesn't authenticate.
If I use CTF only (by enabling something like traffic monitoring), it will authenticate just fine.
Does everyone have CTF + FA?
I was wondering if lack of FA was attributing to a slower speed. Though there's too many factors at play - time of day, contention ratio, etc. I can get 600-700mbs down and 900+ up. Though before, with AT&Ts router, I'd get the full gigabit down. Maybe I just haven't caught it at the right time of day...or maybe FA matters?