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10 gigabit is slowly becoming more practical, led largely by Mikrotik making a 4 port SFP+ 10gigE switch for $140. I just upgraded my home network to have 10gig
by gh02t 6y ago
10 gigabit is slowly becoming more practical, led largely by Mikrotik making a 4 port SFP+ 10gigE switch for $140. I just upgraded my home network to have 10gig on my NAS and my primary desktop workstation, the possibilities it opens up are really amazing and the whole project was about $400 including switch (my existing main switch already had a 10gig uplink but I needed another), 2 NICs and cables. Still not within reach of everybody, but when I priced it out 10gigE ended up being cheaper than 2.5gigE.
- tinus_hn 6y agoWhat kind of cable do you need to use with that?
- e12e 6y agoNot op, but presumably sfp+ drop cables if the devices have sfp+ interfaces, like: https://www.amazon.com/10Gtek-Mikrotik-10GBASE-CU-Passive-1-Meter/dp/B01M073OJU https://www.amazon.com/10Gtek-Mikrotik-10GBASE-CU-Passive-1-... https://www.amazon.com/10GBASE-SFP-10G-AOC-Ubiquiti-Supermicro-Mikrotik/dp/B07VDHS9VK?ref_=ast_sto_dp https://www.amazon.com/10GBASE-SFP-10G-AOC-Ubiquiti-Supermic... Would prob. make sense if you got cheap 10g network cards (second hand, maybe) with sfp+ interfaces? Other option might be a converter/adapter - but then you might be better off with a switch that has rj10 ports built in (and use cat6/7): https://www.servethehome.com/mikrotik-srj10-review-convert-sfp-to-10gbase-t-inexpensively/ https://www.servethehome.com/mikrotik-srj10-review-convert-s...
- gh02t 6y agoI used a 30 meter Amazon branded fiber cable for the main run with 10gtek SFP+ modules and 10gtek direct attach copper cables for the short connections. Both are fairly affordable, and the 10 gig fiber SFPs were much cheaper than I expected. Cabling including SFPs was about $100 of the $400.