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What's oddly left out in the article is the detail of whether or not he already had a network switch with ports supporting more than GbE - the price for these t
by daneel_w 6y ago
What's oddly left out in the article is the detail of whether or not he already had a network switch with ports supporting more than GbE - the price for these things start at around 250-300 CHF which would double his suggested total cost - or if he's just linking two computers together. Personally I would just go with 2.5GBASE Ethernet and compact-diameter cabling. 2.5GBASE PCIe cards cost around $15 a pop.
- secure 6y agoNo, all other devices are gigabit ethernet switches only. I’m linking two switches together with this fiber, and the rest is copper ethernet cables in these switches and other switches :) Behind each switch are 4+ devices, so individual network cards won’t help here.
- daneel_w 6y agoYou have 4+ networked devices in your kitchen, which require more than one Gbit/s network transfers?!
- secure 6y agoYes, I have 3 devices that require fast networking: I run the primary network storage replica, a build server (only powered up on demand) and a mirror server. A Sonos speaker is also connected to the network, but that’s obviously neither important nor significant in terms of traffic. In this article, everything is 1 Gbit/s, including the fiber. I’ll talk more about the 10 Gbit/s aspect in the next article.
- progman32 6y agoQNAP has some fairly cheap routers that have a couple 10GbE ports, like this one: https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/qsw-308-1c https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/qsw-308-1c I paid $200 for mine. Not cost-effective if you have more than a couple 10GbE-capable devices, but great for hooking up a fast NAS to a couple primary workstations and leaving the rest of the network 1GbE.
- daneel_w 6y agoThanks for the name-drop, the brand was new to me, though it has just regular GbE ports unless I'm seeing the speeds wrong. 2.5GBASE/5GBASE is something that would be interesting as it works on regular Cat 5e/6 and 8P8C.
- progman32 6y agoI think you're seeing the speeds wrong :P Not all the ports are the same speed. > ... providing three 10GbE SFP+ ports (with one 10GbE SFP+/RJ45 combo port) and eight Gigabit ports
- daneel_w 6y agoNo I'm sure I'm reading it right: the 8 ports on the side are the interesting ones which you can connect your regular wired devices to, as 99.99% of wired consumer networking is on 8P8C Ethernet, not SFP+.
- lostlogin 6y agoI think it’s a different usage you’re thinking of. Presumably you’d like 10Gb everywhere, while the article and OP are presumably aiming to link a cor switch or high usage device (NAS) at 10Gb while everything else remains 1Gb.
- daneel_w 6y agoI'd like anything over 1Gbit/s within the LAN, between all of the LAN clients. 2.5G is a very affordable drop-in compatible upgrade - plain Ethernet cables and PCIe cards - but I've been having problems finding a decent SoHo switch with 2.5G+ ports. The QSW-1105-5T recommended in this thread seems like a good solution.
- otterlicious 6y agoThere are 8P8C copper SFP(+) modules so that isn't really a barrier. Anyway, what you're looking for is something more like: https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/qsw-1105-5t https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/qsw-1105-5t
- m463 6y agoI suspect one reason he's doing it is for the super-slim cabling. You can get super-slim ethernet cables, but they have really fine wiring and don't go very far. But with fiber you can go vast distances with no problem. You can even get GBICs that will take you 10km. I've been considering it for... well, ok, no reason. I just happen to have two openwrt routers that have an SFP port (mikrotik). They've come out with some new ones that are all SFP port models, for not much money though the 10gbe ones are a bit more. https://amzn.com/B07LFKGP1L https://amzn.com/B07LFKGP1L mikrotik 1x gbe ethernet, 4x SFP 10gbe, $138
- voltagex_ 6y agoThat's the first time I've heard of success with Microtik and OpenWRT - do you have more details?
- m463 6y agoOpenwrt supports quite a few mikrotik devices: https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_16128?dataflt%5BBrand*%7E%5D=mikrotik https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_16128?dataflt%5B...
- nullify88 6y agoAlso check out https://mikrotik.com/product/crs305_1g_4s_in https://mikrotik.com/product/crs305_1g_4s_in which is another popular and among the affordable home 10gbe switches.