M.2 a+e Intel i226 pcie 3 question

[Greg_E]

Hopefully I'm not wasting money here... HP T740 has pcie 3.0 single lane a+e key slot for wifi. I don't need the WiFi so I just ordered an Intel i226 2.5gbps card to go in that slot. Question is this, will that single lane actually go all the way up to 2.5 gbps?

Going to be weeks for the card to arrive, I hope it is really Intel and really an i226.

I also have a dual 10gbps card going in the 4x slot, again hoping it will go full bandwidth on one of the ports. This is not an OPNsense specific question, but could get used again if need be.

[Greg_E]

I looked this up, and in theory you can get 7.5gbps on a single lane of PCIe3, so those adapters should be OK.