Other Ethernet adapters were able to get the expected ~750-950Mbps download/upload speeds on the same Gigabit connection. During testing of AX88179 devices with the beta 2 driver compared to other Gigabit adapters and our own 2.5G Ethernet adapter, we were only able to observe roughly 130-200Mbps downloads and 200Mbps uploads on a Gigabit fiber connection. Unfortunately, there continue to be performance issues with this driver and we still do not recommend these beta drivers for most users. We have not been able to reproduce the issue via multiple speed test platforms, but have not had the opportunity to test full throughput via iPerf. We have performed quick testing against this update to ensure the TX issue has been resolved. For more information and to download the latest driver, please visit the blog post linked below:ĪSIX has provided an update to the previous beta 1 DriverKit Extension (DEXT) driver to address the TX kernel panic issue.
ASIX has published an official, Apple-notarized DEXT driver leveraging DriverKit and associated APIs! As of this date, this article will be deprecated and further updates are not expected to be made.
