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For a moment I thought about setting up 10GbE at home, but then I realized there is no point yet because my external connection to internet is limited to 1 giga
by Jnr 5y ago
For a moment I thought about setting up 10GbE at home, but then I realized there is no point yet because my external connection to internet is limited to 1 gigabit.
The only use internally would be central storage server. But all the new NVMe SSD's are faster than 10 gigs, so my internal network would be the bottleneck.
The next logical step would be upgrading to 100 gig network, but that is too expensive right now. I should buy more fast NVMe storage for that money.
If I could get 10 gigabit connection to internet, it would probably make more sense, but I don't see it coming that soon. And I'm paying 15€ for 1 gigabit right now, I would not be willing to pay much more for 10 gigabit connection.
On top of that, my Zabbix monitoring data shows that I rarely saturate the 1 gigabit connection to internet. Most of the time I don't need more than 10 megabits.
- Jnr 5y agoOh, and I would never actually use the copper cables with RJ45 for anything above 1 gigabit. Those ethernet cards heat up a lot, use too much energy. This would be a bad investment. Get a proper patch or optical cables and use SFP+ instead.
- virtuallynathan 5y agoI’ve never had this as a problem, and I use 50-100ft of Cat5e + 10GBaseT SFP+’s… it’s well within the thermal limits of the SFP, which probably uses 2-5W.
- simcop2387 5y agoI'm surprised you're able to get anything reasonable for 10G over any modest length of cat5e, i made a few attempts at doing it for fun when i was upgrading some of my stuff and could only get anything to work with cat6 at a minimum for more than a few meters.
- Damogran6 5y agoWhat I found was that the bottleneck was often my home firewall. Plenty of bandwidth inside, plenty to the cable modem…but using a Cisco or Palo SOHO firewall of hand capability was more than I wanted to spend…sure I could have set up a VM environment and run a virtual firewall…but I didn’t really want to. I’d done that in the past and talking the wife through a safe VM environment cycle when away from home and something went wrong was…harder than telling her to power cycle a netgear product.