I have a X99 motherboard with Intel Gigabit x2. Want to use link agregation / teaming to get a faster connection to media server. Teaming is not currently supported with Windows 10.. I think the only workaround is to buy Realtek PCIe card and use their drivers..?? There is talk that Windows 10 should be able to support teaming in the future? It's hard to get information on this.
Teaming won't do anything for you in this case, it only gives you more than a single link worth of bandwidth if you are connecting to multiple hosts.
If your NAS supports smb multichannel then that might be a better option.
I have a Synology NAS with link-aggregation / bonding enabled with a 4 Gbps connection to network. Cisco Systems Gigabit 14 Port Router. Trying to harness both Gigabit connections from my system to get a 2 Gbps connection to network instead of 1 Gbps....
You can't, if you're only connecting to one device (the NAS) then you can only get 1gbps speed, link aggregation only increases bandwidth if you are connecting to multiple hosts.
You can configure NIC teaming, but it won't increase your bandwidth unless you are connecting to multiple hosts simultaneously. Link aggregation does not double your bandwidth, it aggregates the links, so if you have 6 computers accessing a server that has a four port link aggregation than the total available bandwidth is 4gbps, but the maximum throughput that can exist between the server and one of the computers accessing it is 1gbps. You can't get more than that between only two hosts. You can do it in linux by using round robin link aggregation but only if the two devices are plugged directly in to each other.
If you want to increase the bandwidth between your desktop and NAS then SMB multichannel is what you want, but the NAS may not support it.
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As for windows 10 it self. I was using Intel NICs teaming. Right to the moment when Windows 10 was completely stripped of NIC teaming. Until that moment I was not aware that Intel drivers where using Windows 10 functionality to implement their "own" teaming "feature".
So before you buy check if it will not be a the same issue with Realtek.
As for how soon Windows 10 will have it back? I think, probably never.
I don't understand the reason for removing it in the first place - other than just deciding that this is only "server" feature and that would confirm that it will "never" be back.
That feture is highly experimental on Linux, so it won't be coming soon to Syno.
I've heard people used vlans and/or static lag on their switches to get it to work over their switches.
Same difference, You need to configure the switch so that you effectively have the nics connected directly to each other. Using VLANs does allow you to have more that two devices connected but it's still dodgy and you may not actually get any faster speed due to the collisions and out of sync packets. Plus it only works on linux.
Yea, unfortunately. I am curious though if its possible to run a tiny Linux VM on, say, Hyper-V on Windows to aggregate traffic inside VM and then output it to a virtual 10Gb nic and use that as gateway on Windows host.