u/Early_Reflection6068

I am getting fiber shortly, construction happening now in my street. I was able to upgrade my xfinity to 2gb at no additional charge so I started testing out my network for higher speeds.

I have a raid system that runs 10gb on cat, a server that has dual 10gb sfp+ and a couple of 10gb NIC's for other computers, as well as all cat6a cabling and 2.5-10gb switches (10gb between switches and all devices are on 10gb connected switches/ports).

I can run speed tests between devices and get anywhere from 6-9+gb, and a test from xfinity to my house runs at 2gb+... I have tried other cables as well but still max out at 1gb internet. Customer service says it is a hardware issue...

Any thoughts as to what I can try?

I bought a thinkcentre to just kind of mess around with it, perhaps run storage/backup, a few light VM's etc. I installed the 01AJ940 riser as well as a Q-Logic QLE8362-SR Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ PCIe Network Adapter.

I am currently running Windows 11 Pro on it, and haven't been able to get it to work. I have tried to find drivers to manually update, as well as download 3rd party driver updating software... no luck. With this NIC in particular, I bought it used on ebay as well as the riser card. I know that the company name has changed/been purchased, and that it is past its EOL but from what I've read if you have the driver it still works for instances such as mine... I cannot find the driver for the life of me, or know if that is even the issue.

Any advice out there? I'm pretty new to homelab/network stuff beyond the basics, but have run 10gbe capable equipment and cat6a throughout my house, garage and yard. I realize I don't need that for most devices however as long as I'm at it...