Of course he incorporates a test DJ set! Love it. I'm almost tempted to get the instrumental to the Bieber tune and do the thing that I do with "Baby, Baby Baby NOOOOOOOOOOO" :D
Bro this is fucking it man! This is your content I was dying on the dj part while learning and didn’t even notice it was a 20min video. Good stuff man!
I was just testing the network speeds from my MBP with the M2 and I've been dealing with inconsistent uploads as well. My thought is that when the changed to the arm architecture that the drivers for that iteration of the network controller are at fault for this. Good video.
Unfortunately I wish this was the case. I have a 2020 i9 MacBook Pro. (The DJ computer). The hub behaves exactly the same on that machine as well. (It’s running Ventura where the M3 Max is obviously on Sonoma as it shipped with it)- it’s the one thing I forgot to mention in the video. You are right that it’s probably driver related, but it’s the same story on both Intel and Apple silicon in my experience. I find it hilarious that the 2012 beats both of them 🤦🏾♂️ Thank you so much for the compliment.
FYI, my suspicion is that the hub uses a realtek r8125 or derived chipset for the 2.5GB/s driver. This behavior is really common with those devices and also manifests on Linux drivers for USB dongles that use this. I am not sure if the problem also occurs on windows boxes at all, but at least for Linux and MacOS, 1.1GB up, and 2.5GB down is about as good as you can do with the hardware and heat envelope.
I would agree,.... except I can sustain 2.5 gigabit within the local network at home and there's no throttling whatsoever. I was able to send 300 gigs of data within my network from one computer to another at 285 megabytes a second (sustained) which is around 2280 without issue. The hub didn't get hot at all. And the fact that even after stressing the hub on the 2012 Macbook Pro, the Ookla Speedtest could still achieve 2300 on the upload side invalidates this as a hub issue. It's most likely some weird Apple driver issue with newer MacOS versions. Also, I tried this on my 2020 Macbook Pro (the DJ computer with the Intel i9 running MacOS Ventura) with the same results, so that rules out Apple Silicon being an issue.
I’ve had nothing but problems with my Realtek 2.5G dongles. Performance issues on both macOS and on Windows - even when plugged into a native 10G switch. My most reliable adapter so far has been a Connect-X adapter plugged into an eGPU enclosure…which sucks because it’s huge and I can’t bring it around with me lol
@@TechMixr Thanks for the quick reply! I’ve tried changing the MTU, but haven’t tried locking the link speed. (I’ll go try that now) I did manage to get my dongles to perform correctly on Windows after updating them manually (through Realtek’s website). It seems like the driver Windows Update installs by default is a bit broken.
@@aaronrh_ awesome! Hopefully Apple gets their sh*t together and addresses networking in Sonoma 🤦🏾♂️ my wifi on my maxed out M3 Max caps at the highest I’ve seen being 130 megabit. My 2012 is faster and so is my 2020 machine.
@@TechMixr Seems to be the same. IIRC the Realtek driver is provided by Realtek themselves, but it’s ancient and they don’t really have any incentive to fix it. WiFi-wise, yeah…it blows. 80 MHz wireless on my M1 Pro is a joke, and I typically cap out at 600-700 Mbps (exactly the same with my iPhone). My Windows machine easily pushes 1.3-1.4 Gbps over WiFi (160 MHz) lol Edit: I’m curious, what AP are you using?
@@aaronrh_ I’m using 2 ASUS AX89X routers with AIMesh with a 10 GbE backhaul. In Canada, we have Bell fibre to the home in a few places, I’m on 8 gigabit (did reviews about it on the channel)
Tons of RU-vidrs do unbiased reviews and keep a sample. Doesn’t count as a sponsorship- I’ve looked into this heavily. Plus it was disclosed very early on. Thanks for the concern.
