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As a counterpoint: I had 10G networking and went back to 1G last time I reorganized. Haven’t really missed the 10G for now. I ditched the 10G because the 10G s
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
As a counterpoint: I had 10G networking and went back to 1G last time I reorganized. Haven’t really missed the 10G for now.
I ditched the 10G because the 10G switch was hot and noisy and had a fan, whereas my 1G equipment was silent and low power. This could be overcome by putting the switch in another room, obviously, but I haven’t missed it enough to go through the trouble yet.
> During the 2 years of the pandemic I've been working from home with gigabit Internet.
Doesn’t this make every other point in your post moot? I’m similarly limited by Gigabit internet, so the only time I benefit from 10G is transfers to/from my local NAS. I realized that I almost never lose time sitting and waiting for NAS transfers to finish, so even that was only a rare benefit.
If I was buying new equipment and building out something new, I’d pick 2.5G right now. It’s significantly faster than 1G but doesn’t come with the heat and noise that a lot (though not all) of 10G switches come with.
I’m sure I’ll go back to 10G some day, but without >1G internet and no local transfer use case, I found the extra hassle of the equipment (laptop adapters, expensive/hot/noisy switches) wasn’t really worth it for me yet.
- Teknoman117 5y agoI ended up buying one of these for my 10g home network. It's completely fanless. The 1G Ubiquity EdgeRouter-X I have runs way hotter. https://mikrotik.com/product/crs309_1g_8s_in https://mikrotik.com/product/crs309_1g_8s_in
- kkielhofner 5y agoThis is exactly where I ended up recently. I went from noisy and power hungry Cisco/Juniper 10G switches to a silent Ubiquiti GigE switch with PoE and haven’t been happier. 10G was cool but I can’t recall a single instance where I really wish I had it back.
- PragmaticPulp 5y ago> 10G was cool but I can’t recall a single instance where I really wish I had it back. Same. It only really made a small difference to my most transfer-heavy workflows. Even a fast NAS is still slow relative to local storage (it’s not just about sequential transfer speeds). I’m sure I’d feel differently if I was doing something like video editing where I had to move large files back and forth frequently and wait for them to be ready.
- zenonu 5y agoAll of my 10g equipment is silent or near silent. Most recent purchase is the TP-Link TL-SX105. Take another look the next time you redo your home network. At least consider multi-gigabit.
- qwertyuiop_ 5y agoI am on FIOS 1G home fiber, how does one get 10G ? Do they have run a line from the node or street ?
- secure 5y agoIf your provider offers 10 Gbit/s, you only need to change the fiber optics modules at either end of the connection. The same lines can be used, no need to run anything extra.