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I would quite happily upgrade to 10GBASE-T now on my home network but alas the prices are still a bit too much for a reasonable consumer upgrade. In general I a

I would quite happily upgrade to 10GBASE-T now on my home network but alas the prices are still a bit too much for a reasonable consumer upgrade. In general I am a bit disappointed with consumer network kit, we could do with some openWRT/DDWRT/Tomato Wifi 6E capable routers able to do CAKE QoS on gbit fibre. Rather than having to hack a raspberry pi 4 together with a consumer router as an access point for the wifi. What I want is 10GBASE-T and wifi 6E and the performance to route 1gbit/s with QoS and I would like it for something more like $200 or less. $250 for a couple of 2.5gbit/s ports on a switch is just not worth it.

bombcar 5y ago
I got a microtik 4 port 10Gb switch and some cheap eBay cards to go with the 10Gbe port on my thunderbolt dock - works well for VMs and NAS stuff. Everything else is gigabit or wifi.
- CharlesW 5y ago
  If I go to Mikrotik's Switches section and filter by "10 Gigabit combo interface: 1 - 4", there's only one $600 product (CRS312-4C+8XG-RM). Is that the one you're using?
  - wl 5y ago
    The CRS305-1G-4S+IN goes from $125-$150.
    - sbierwagen 5y ago
      That's a SFP switch, not ethernet. That requires either SFP direct attach cables or fiber transceivers.
      - wl 5y ago
        It's an ethernet switch with one 1Gbase-T port and 4x SFP+ ports that can be any media you want the proper transceiver. Including 10Gbase-T if you really want it for some reason.
      - bombcar 5y ago
        Yep, and I have two DAC, one fiber, and one twisted pair SFPs in it. Works well and DACs aren’t exceptionally costly. The fiber goes to a 10g uplink on the old core switch I got on eBay.
  - justsomehnguy 5y ago
    Another one with only 2x10G SFP+ CSS610-8G-2S+IN Eight 1G Ethernet ports and two SFP+ ports for 10G fiber connectivity. $99.00
    - CharlesW 5y ago
      Thank you!
justsomehnguy 5y ago
> 10GBASE-T and wifi 6E and the performance to route 1gbit/s with QoS and I would like it for something more like $200 In one device? You want too much for too less, each one separately costs ~$200. And there is no demand for such devices yet which is the reason you can't find it.

bombcar 5y ago

I got a microtik 4 port 10Gb switch and some cheap eBay cards to go with the 10Gbe port on my thunderbolt dock - works well for VMs and NAS stuff. Everything else is gigabit or wifi.

CharlesW 5y ago
If I go to Mikrotik's Switches section and filter by "10 Gigabit combo interface: 1 - 4", there's only one $600 product (CRS312-4C+8XG-RM). Is that the one you're using?
- wl 5y ago
  The CRS305-1G-4S+IN goes from $125-$150.
  - sbierwagen 5y ago
    That's a SFP switch, not ethernet. That requires either SFP direct attach cables or fiber transceivers.
    - wl 5y ago
      It's an ethernet switch with one 1Gbase-T port and 4x SFP+ ports that can be any media you want the proper transceiver. Including 10Gbase-T if you really want it for some reason.
    - bombcar 5y ago
      Yep, and I have two DAC, one fiber, and one twisted pair SFPs in it. Works well and DACs aren’t exceptionally costly. The fiber goes to a 10g uplink on the old core switch I got on eBay.
- justsomehnguy 5y ago
  Another one with only 2x10G SFP+ CSS610-8G-2S+IN Eight 1G Ethernet ports and two SFP+ ports for 10G fiber connectivity. $99.00
  - CharlesW 5y ago
    Thank you!

justsomehnguy 5y ago

> 10GBASE-T and wifi 6E and the performance to route 1gbit/s with QoS and I would like it for something more like $200 In one device? You want too much for too less, each one separately costs ~$200. And there is no demand for such devices yet which is the reason you can't find it.