[SOLVED] Be warned of B550 boards with Realtek 2.5G controller

[cpp2005]

Hi
I have Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite board with Realtek 2.5G controller.
It has buggy driver affecting many people (I hope this is driver and not hardware problem).
The problem that this adapter reset itself under network load (I have it when downloading torrents).
You can see this thread
http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts...itle=realtek-25gbe-rtl8125-ndis-reset-problem
or this
https://forum.gigabyte.us/thread/9873/aorus-realtek-network-adapter-problem
I wrote to Gigabyte support but the answers I got are just pointless and ridiculous.

 

[kanewolf]

Hi
I have Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite board with Realtek 2.5G controller.
It has buggy driver affecting many people (I hope this is driver and not hardware problem).
The problem that this adapter reset itself under network load (I have it when downloading torrents).
You can see this thread
http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts...itle=realtek-25gbe-rtl8125-ndis-reset-problem
or this
https://forum.gigabyte.us/thread/9873/aorus-realtek-network-adapter-problem
I wrote to Gigabyte support but the answers I got are just pointless and ridiculous.

Since 2.5Gbit ethernet is not beneficial to most, I would probably recommend getting a USB3 to ethernet adapter and not using the 2.5Gbit until the driver problem is corrected.

 

[hotaru.hino]

What counts as a "heavy load"? I've had mine downloading stuff from Steam basically at the upper limit of my internet speed (200Mbps) without issue.

 

[cpp2005]

For me it only happens with torrents, multiple connections maybe? Just downloading files does not trigger it.

I would probably recommend getting a USB3 to ethernet adapter and not using the 2.5Gbit until the driver problem is corrected.

I have 1G router and not using 2.5G anyway. That's probably what I'll do if this problem will not be solved.