NanoPi NEO very slow ethernet

[coolchip]

Hello,
I bought a NanoPi NEO. I accidentally bought it without the ethernet socket. Because I need ethernet, I soldered a ethernet socket to myself. It is a different type than the one specified by friendlyarm in the schematic. But It has the same electrical and mechanical specifications. My equipment and my soldering skills are very good, so I think there should be no solder mistake.

Ethernet is now working with my NanoPi NEO. But its extremly slow. I have transfer rates of a few 100 KB/s. I think this should be higher.
So what can be the reason? Do I have to add further components to the board?

[davef]

If it is working I would doubt extra parts can to be added to increase the speed. I have read discussions about Ethernet speeds on various boards, so I would focus on what an NEO that comes with that port is capable of.

I believe some SBC (single board computers) use the USB bus to handle the ethernet comms, is the NEO one of them?

[coolchip]

On the NanoPi NEO the ethernet port ist directly connected to the Allwinner H3. So there should be no problem with USB.

[davef]

So there should be no problem with USB.

Not too sure what this comment means.

If it did use a USB to ethernet bridge and specifically USB 2 then the ethernet speeds might be lower than a proper ethernet implementation. I would assume USB would not be affected in this case or if a proper ethernet implementation was used. That is just my understanding.

I would go looking for armbian or the AllWinner forums where you might find out what the limitations are on ethernet speeds.

Good luck!