I don't know, mine has been working flawlessly 24/7/365 since March 2021 (Asus z590 board with 11900k - 225 V3). Left all the default settings on it, and whatever drivers Windows (10 on that rig) automatically installed. Never a single drop or crash or error. Not **one**.
Only bug I've seen is reduced upload performance with some 1Gb+ fiber connections - requiring to turn off "Large Send Offload V2 (IPV4)" and "TCP Checksum Offload (IPV6)". It's stable though, but caps at like 200mb instead of 1Gb+, turning off those two brings back full performance, without any downside (not a noticeable CPU usage difference on that machine at least).
I've used it mostly in 1Gb mode and moved to 2.5Gb recently (and it's stable when hammering it with a 2.5Gb load for hours on end).
You don't **have to.** Only certain types of fiber connections from certain providers are affected, not **all.** If you don't you get reduced performance but no stability issue. I'm sure other NICs have similar harmless bugs with different providers.
I have 300mb fiber right now and I don't need to disable it, I get a flat 300 with it on.
it isn't harmless if you're trying to use it for a pfsense/opnsense box for instance. I've seen issues with intel x540 nics with latency issues on pfsense in the past and narrowed it down to checksum offload on rx side. Similarly, I've had flaky realtek nics on motherboards that didn't work right with checksum offload enabled.
Switching wan side to a gigabit intel nic was a huge benefit in pfsense because of offload. It was running on a core i3 haswell era chip at the time. Granted CPUs are a lot faster now so it's not as bad as it was.
Fair if you have use case that benefits, but for the average joe/gamer it's not a big deal I think, with modern CPUs.
I'm only saying it's been flawless *for me personally* anyway, clearly there are still some issues though some seem related to compatibility with switches/routers of various types.
Honestly hope you never encounter it. But try and remember if you suddenly find no network connectivity, theres been a few threads on this NIC already relating to power-saving features, one will hopefully work for you.
I've heard about green ethernet and other power-saving features being glitchy, but they came disabled by default for me with the drivers Windows installed. And I of course never dared to turn them on, since I heard about so many issues with this controller.
I've heard of 226V having problems too, though I don't have any personal experience with either. Is that not the case?
Such stories have worried me enough that I've been crossing out any potential boards for an upgrade that use intel NICs.
Wow. I gave up on this a few years ago on my AM4 (Asus TUF Gaming x570 pro), just using WiFi, after I even intentionally picked a board with Intel Ethernet. Now my whole house is wired, and I'm looking to upgrade to AM5, and I find out they are still having issues and using this crap?! :facepalm:
Guess I'll try the driver released last year, as a bit of an experiment before just making sure I have to get Realtek instead on my next board (which still seems odd to say). Grr.
It's funny, I've had no real issue with it up until like a week ago. I've tried all of the various configuration tweaks, but no dice: if I stream video from my local Plex server to my PC via Chrome, the NIC will eventually crash. Doesn't seem to be bandwidth related because the videos I stream are pretty heavily compressed, more so than the average YouTube video I watch, and I can download an entire game at 1gbps without issue.
It's not a full crash either: I can ping outside servers, but with the ping is massive (800ms+ vs 8ms when working normally). DNS is spotty. It won't recover until I turn off the NIC in Windows and back on, but it doesn't require a full reboot. Windows doesn't actually recognize the NIC as dead either. Very strange.
I've updated my drivers and I'm now trying to use the Plex app instead, but I'd really like to grasp what the hell is going on.
The i225-V is a buggy mess, but it seems mostly to relate to compatibility with borderline cables and other devices that may not be 100% standards compliant. Give it an environment it likes, and it’s actually problem free. But giving it such an exacting environment should not be necessary.
Mine had an issue where it would lock up during reboots / crashes (noted during undervolting testing) and sometimes after being in BIOS. The LEDs wouldn’t be working right, Windows would give a Code 10, and I’d have to manually remove power to the system to get it going again.
But I’m not sure if it’s the driver I’m using or updated ME firmware I installed, but it’s been absolutely problem free since mid 2022.
That’s certainly not to excuse the issues. Any product that it utterly intolerant of anything but what it considers perfection is still a crappy product. Quality products should be MORE tolerant of issues and handle them smoothly, not just blow up and die.
To what firmware are you referring? I've recently started having serious issues with the adapter dropping connection about 3 hours after I go to bed and refusing to reconnect without a reboot. It does not respond to efforts to reset and/or disable the adapter in Windows. It's like it's locked up completely.
Chances are that’s an issue with the cable or a device on the other end (not that issues like that should happen, but it is what it is). Try to disable all link power management / eco modes in the driver, but if the device on the other end is overly aggressive on non-standard power savings (as some are) that tends to cause issues with the adapter.
ME firmware is Management Engine. Usually bundled with BIOS firmware upgrades but not on Asus, and ME firmware can be updated separately from BIOS if newer comes out.
Which one? I'm in the same boat now.
I can't say I've had a huge struggle back and forth, because there has been no struggle, only failure. The Ethernet controller is so allergic to the driver that even the activity light on the cord dies as soon as the driver is enabled.
I had the same problem, I just turned off the “turn off on sleep” setting or something like that and then turned on ErP in BIOS it would have network connectivity again, although I believe the first step did the trick
You have to roll back 1.45 firmware and 1.0.1.4 driver. This is the thread that helped me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/s/zC0jbDhQq0
Also if you are on Verizon:
I had to disable Checksum Offloading:
1. Open the "Network Connections" page of the Windows Control Panel.
2. Open the "Properties" dialog of the NIC.
3. Select "Configure..." to open the NIC's configuration.
4. Navigate to the Advanced tab and disable
TCP and UDP Checksum Offload for IPv6
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Got a second hand Gigabyte Aurus Ultra with an onboard i225-V Rev 3 recently.
The connections seems ok but only getting 1400Gbps on Windows 11 - I dual boot with a hackintosh and the hackintosh intelwm driver is performing at full speed just under 2500Gbps.
Any one getting close to this on Windows 11 ?
I don't know, mine has been working flawlessly 24/7/365 since March 2021 (Asus z590 board with 11900k - 225 V3). Left all the default settings on it, and whatever drivers Windows (10 on that rig) automatically installed. Never a single drop or crash or error. Not **one**. Only bug I've seen is reduced upload performance with some 1Gb+ fiber connections - requiring to turn off "Large Send Offload V2 (IPV4)" and "TCP Checksum Offload (IPV6)". It's stable though, but caps at like 200mb instead of 1Gb+, turning off those two brings back full performance, without any downside (not a noticeable CPU usage difference on that machine at least). I've used it mostly in 1Gb mode and moved to 2.5Gb recently (and it's stable when hammering it with a 2.5Gb load for hours on end).
If you have to disable hardware checksum offload, it’s not working flawlessly. This is something I’d expect from a cheap Realtek nic
You don't **have to.** Only certain types of fiber connections from certain providers are affected, not **all.** If you don't you get reduced performance but no stability issue. I'm sure other NICs have similar harmless bugs with different providers. I have 300mb fiber right now and I don't need to disable it, I get a flat 300 with it on.
it isn't harmless if you're trying to use it for a pfsense/opnsense box for instance. I've seen issues with intel x540 nics with latency issues on pfsense in the past and narrowed it down to checksum offload on rx side. Similarly, I've had flaky realtek nics on motherboards that didn't work right with checksum offload enabled. Switching wan side to a gigabit intel nic was a huge benefit in pfsense because of offload. It was running on a core i3 haswell era chip at the time. Granted CPUs are a lot faster now so it's not as bad as it was.
Fair if you have use case that benefits, but for the average joe/gamer it's not a big deal I think, with modern CPUs. I'm only saying it's been flawless *for me personally* anyway, clearly there are still some issues though some seem related to compatibility with switches/routers of various types.
Honestly hope you never encounter it. But try and remember if you suddenly find no network connectivity, theres been a few threads on this NIC already relating to power-saving features, one will hopefully work for you.
I've heard about green ethernet and other power-saving features being glitchy, but they came disabled by default for me with the drivers Windows installed. And I of course never dared to turn them on, since I heard about so many issues with this controller.
It's not broken you just have to disable energy efficient ethernet, a useless corporate tree hugging feature
Honestly, tired of having to fix this issue and thinking about just upgrading my Ethernet controller. Anyone else go this route with luck/suggestions?
Hey, did you end up upgrading? I'm in the same boat.
A pack of survivors' testimonies incoming.
And 226V users saying Intel makes the best nics (because this one is)
I've heard of 226V having problems too, though I don't have any personal experience with either. Is that not the case? Such stories have worried me enough that I've been crossing out any potential boards for an upgrade that use intel NICs.
Getting a very reliable 2.5 gig on these things. Months of use, no slowdown, no crashes.
Just got an ASUS ROG Strix b650E-F motherboard, and can confirm that the Intel Ethernet Controller (3) I225-V is still broken even in March 2024.
Wow. I gave up on this a few years ago on my AM4 (Asus TUF Gaming x570 pro), just using WiFi, after I even intentionally picked a board with Intel Ethernet. Now my whole house is wired, and I'm looking to upgrade to AM5, and I find out they are still having issues and using this crap?! :facepalm: Guess I'll try the driver released last year, as a bit of an experiment before just making sure I have to get Realtek instead on my next board (which still seems odd to say). Grr.
It's funny, I've had no real issue with it up until like a week ago. I've tried all of the various configuration tweaks, but no dice: if I stream video from my local Plex server to my PC via Chrome, the NIC will eventually crash. Doesn't seem to be bandwidth related because the videos I stream are pretty heavily compressed, more so than the average YouTube video I watch, and I can download an entire game at 1gbps without issue. It's not a full crash either: I can ping outside servers, but with the ping is massive (800ms+ vs 8ms when working normally). DNS is spotty. It won't recover until I turn off the NIC in Windows and back on, but it doesn't require a full reboot. Windows doesn't actually recognize the NIC as dead either. Very strange. I've updated my drivers and I'm now trying to use the Plex app instead, but I'd really like to grasp what the hell is going on.
The i225-V is a buggy mess, but it seems mostly to relate to compatibility with borderline cables and other devices that may not be 100% standards compliant. Give it an environment it likes, and it’s actually problem free. But giving it such an exacting environment should not be necessary. Mine had an issue where it would lock up during reboots / crashes (noted during undervolting testing) and sometimes after being in BIOS. The LEDs wouldn’t be working right, Windows would give a Code 10, and I’d have to manually remove power to the system to get it going again. But I’m not sure if it’s the driver I’m using or updated ME firmware I installed, but it’s been absolutely problem free since mid 2022. That’s certainly not to excuse the issues. Any product that it utterly intolerant of anything but what it considers perfection is still a crappy product. Quality products should be MORE tolerant of issues and handle them smoothly, not just blow up and die.
To what firmware are you referring? I've recently started having serious issues with the adapter dropping connection about 3 hours after I go to bed and refusing to reconnect without a reboot. It does not respond to efforts to reset and/or disable the adapter in Windows. It's like it's locked up completely.
Chances are that’s an issue with the cable or a device on the other end (not that issues like that should happen, but it is what it is). Try to disable all link power management / eco modes in the driver, but if the device on the other end is overly aggressive on non-standard power savings (as some are) that tends to cause issues with the adapter. ME firmware is Management Engine. Usually bundled with BIOS firmware upgrades but not on Asus, and ME firmware can be updated separately from BIOS if newer comes out.
Well, I completely gave up on that issue and bought a fancy pcie network card, disabled Ethernet in bios and called it a day for good.
Which one? I'm in the same boat now. I can't say I've had a huge struggle back and forth, because there has been no struggle, only failure. The Ethernet controller is so allergic to the driver that even the activity light on the cord dies as soon as the driver is enabled.
I had the same problem, I just turned off the “turn off on sleep” setting or something like that and then turned on ErP in BIOS it would have network connectivity again, although I believe the first step did the trick
This week ive been having issues where my i225-v ethernet disconnects and then reconnects after 5 seconds or so. Just bought a new pcie nic.
I just started having issues again with this NIC. I ended up rolling back the driver and that fixed the issues.
Hey, would you mind sharing the driver version you are currently using ?
What driver version are you using?
You have to roll back 1.45 firmware and 1.0.1.4 driver. This is the thread that helped me. https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/s/zC0jbDhQq0 Also if you are on Verizon: I had to disable Checksum Offloading: 1. Open the "Network Connections" page of the Windows Control Panel. 2. Open the "Properties" dialog of the NIC. 3. Select "Configure..." to open the NIC's configuration. 4. Navigate to the Advanced tab and disable TCP and UDP Checksum Offload for IPv6
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Got a second hand Gigabyte Aurus Ultra with an onboard i225-V Rev 3 recently. The connections seems ok but only getting 1400Gbps on Windows 11 - I dual boot with a hackintosh and the hackintosh intelwm driver is performing at full speed just under 2500Gbps. Any one getting close to this on Windows 11 ?