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I would totally do that but I have a few mini-PC's that have the I225-V and I can't swap them out. I've used USB3.2->Ethernet dongles as work arounds until I could find a switch that was happy with it. Same with the latest Protectli firewalls, they also have the I225-V. For those I have to use ethtool to force a specific speed which is not ideal. I'm thinking mini-PC's are maybe a mistake in this generation of NICs.

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Same boat here. Care to share what switch you ended up landing on? I'm still searching… :'(

They all have issues but the worst issues I ran into were on the TrendNet switches. The NIC's would start to get into carrier reset loops or sometimes would reset with no predictable pattern. I225-V + Trendnet seem to amplify each others bugs. Those switches also have problems with the I219-V. I threw those switches away.

The TP-Link and Netgear switches had the least issues for me in that I only had to force a particular speed to avoid sometimes negotiating at 100mb. I am not sure people will notice the negotiating bugs unless their family are heavy bandwidth users. I noticed it because of streaming and gaming at the same time plus I shut down my machines at night so I have a coin-flip chance of negotiating incorrectly every day.

Which mini PC's have the issue?

I do not have an all-inclusive list of which mini-PC's have the I225-V's. I have a few versions of the AMD Ryzen's and they all have them. The latest Protectli firewalls also mini-PC's have them. Several of the off-brand mini-PC's on Amazon have them. Some of the Intel NUCs may have them. If buying one of these online I suggest first posting a customer question about what NICs they have.

> AMD Ryzen

Damn. That's pretty much a requirement for any upcoming home lab gear here, so I'd better be careful about this aspect when researching.

Thanks. :)

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