Interesting that it will only have 1 10GbE port, I'm not really sure how you're supposed to use 10Gb internet service if you can't get 10Gb out of the router into your LAN.
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The idea is that you use the 10Gb port as a trunk, then you use your switch to split it into separate physical ports using VLANs.
Ah that makes sense, so not very useful if you have over 5Gb internet service I suppose.
The 10Gb is full duplex, so you can transfer at the full 10Gb though that is split between upload and download. These and the kind of 'problems' I wish I had to consider.
Fair, I guess the chances of needing simultaneous 10Gb download and upload on the internet connection are pretty slim.
My ISP does offer 6 Gbps, but 1 Gbps is far more than I need already. I would drop down to like a 500 Mbps plan if they had one but it jumps all the way to 100 Mbps.
What would be a good alternative to go between the modem and a mesh access point?
Two Ethernet (gigabit) would be required.
250$?! I can buy n100 minipc with 90$ and wifi7 intel card for 20$
They often only have 1 ethernet port that's 1GbE or 2.5GbE at that price, and a wifi client card doesn't make a very good AP.
Where can you buy an N90 for 90$? Legit question.
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Only 1 ethernet port.
1 Ethernet port does not a router make.
Router-on-a-stick would work, but I'd like a 10G SFTP for that.
Have you seen Xiaomi WiFi routers?
thats garbage marketing naming. that is an access point
Will that minipc have those 10g/5g/2.5g ethernet ports? If you don't need that ethernet bandwidth, we all know there are cheaper options.
You and me know, but not everyone, most people don't even know what lemmy is
People reading about OpenWRT based network devices, probably know about their needs. They are usually already looking for devices with OpenWRT support, without being too expensive.
Also, people not knowing about Lemmy is completely irrelevant on this context. I highly doubt that all friends on the network engineering field know about Lemmy, but they surely know whether they need 10g or not. Besides that, you are talking about people not knowing about Lemmy ON Lemmy.
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