Been doing quite a bit of research on finding the right card that will support NBase-T, the standard that my Telco is employing for the Ethernet Handoff from their Residential Gateway to my home network.
I found plenty of cards that worked at the 10G side, and a lot claimed to support it, but when checking the base chipset their cards used, most of them were much older and could not possibly support this newer standard. But Ipolex uses Intel’s X550-T2 Chipset, and Intel is an early supporter of that standard, so it would ostensibly work with the NBase-T standard. I spent a few days chatting with the Vendor’s Tech Support team to ensure that they natively supported NBase-T, and they confirmed it’ was 100% compatible, so I’ve finally settled on that NIC for my pfSense installation. Hopefully I’ll start to see the faster download speeds once I get that delivered.and installed!