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I've had a few issues.

First, I needed to change UEFI settings to legacy in BIOS, otherwise the router hung on reboot (25.1.12 was booting fine).

Now, after a reboot the machine hangs right after the microcode is reinstalled with "Reloading firmware configuration." I can force a reboot but am in an intermediate state (kernel 14.3, but still Opnsense 25.1.12)

Uninstall microcode, upgrade, reinstall microcode. Had the same issue. (Intel)

I had a N100-based i225 4-port with 1/1Gb connection, download have always been 1Gb but upload between 500-600Mb, never figured out why.

I happened to have a NUC 13 Pro i7-1360 with i226 collecting dust, so I ordered the extra NIC-module. It connects to M.2 PCI-E/SATA cards place and shows up as native i226V so all well.

Turned out that download was around 200-300Mb. After some time in the world wide wait solution came up, disable PCI-E ASPM in BIOS power settings. Now I have a totally overkill OPNSense box, but I'm finally getting my money's worth, a symmetric 1/1Gb connection :)

Some virtual coffee sent, big thanks!