Honestly, because I don’t really have any network equipment (not even a real switch yet), so the dream machine pro actually reduces a lot of the purchasing I’d

Honestly, because I don’t really have any network equipment (not even a real switch yet), so the dream machine pro actually reduces a lot of the purchasing I’d have to do to get everything working. I could cobble together it’s functionality out of other parts ... if I already owned those parts. But by the time I bought a home server and a real switch, I’d be out more than the Dream Machine Pro costs. Assuming it does everything it says it will on the tin, of course.