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Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'd like something that can replace my dinky little unmanaged 16-port gigabit switch for less than $300. Right now The only things I can find in that price bracket have maybe 5 ports. I'd settle for something that can just do 2.5/5Gb on all ports.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Yeah what I've settled on is one of those $40 generic Chinese 4x2.5G PoE+2x10G SFP+ switches. Gives me:

10G for internet/router
10G for my main computer
2.5G for secondary machine
2.5G for NAS
2.5G PoE for WiFi
One port chained to a 16-port Gbit switch for all the slow junk that doesn't need performance

Would be great to get another 10G for the NAS as well!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Best I can do is 8x2,5 +2SFP+

The CRS310-8G+2S+IN at 250€. Good luck with configuration though

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That'll be a while, there isn't much push yet (1gbe is still pretty fast) and you can do 2.5 if you want to push, they're basically starting to replace 1gbe with 2.5gbe as a drop in.

WiFi kind of screwed everything because it's 90-95% of all user clients, so if wifi can't handle the bandwidth, the bandwidth is considered 'commercial' and they charge you through the nose.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

16x2.5gbe with a couple of 10gbe uplinks (a couple so you can either daisy chain, or connect 1 to another switch and another to a sever with 10gbe) would be amazing - that’d handle wifi on a single port and allow multiple devices to all use their full 2.5gbe

i’ve seen a couple with 5x2.5gbe and 2xSFP+, which i guesssssss is okay

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I have a few 4x2.5gbe and 2x10gbe, and I think one is 8x2.5 + 1x10gbe.

Theyll get better, networking is actually easy to sku once you get going, they've just enjoyed the premiums till now.

And again, wifi was considered the main connector, which is why we got 2.5gbe in the first place, it fit 802.11ac and most of ax.