Anyone using 10GbE at home?

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Just wondering.

Just wired up the house with some Cat6 for 1GbE and am loving the increase in performance having been tethered by powerline which although infinitely better than wifi, could not punch through the old electrics in the house.

Just interested if anyone has a 10GbE network at home.

Thanks.
 
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It's very expensive.

£250 per pc for 10gbe cards
£650 for an 8 porr switch


Or you can use direct attachment cables with 10gbe sfp+ cards, probably about £80 to £150 for second hand kit.

I reckon within 3 years it will be far more affordable.

Ubiquiti bringing out switches too soon, which smashes the price down.
 
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Yes. 24 port 10Gbe switch (£99 off ebay) with £5 DAC cables (ebay) and varying price NICs (ebay).

Do I need it? No is it fast? Very :cool:
 
whats the benefit of using 10GBE when your on a commercial ISP like virgin? sorry I'm not very clued up on networking.
 
Are your DAC cables very long though?

Reason i ask is the ones we sometimes use at work are normally upto maybe 3-4 meters, only ideal for cabling up within a rack, or very messy to the adjacent rack. So don't know if they'd be ideal for cabling up a house.

pinki104 said:
whats the benefit of using 10GBE when your on a commercial ISP like virgin? sorry I'm not very clued up on networking.
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Internal data transfer.
- Moving data from one device to another
- Backups would be much faster


This all assumes the users backend is enough to rx/tx at a high enough speed. Unless using SSD, you'd need an array of mechanical drives.
 
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bledd said:
It's very expensive.
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Since when in the glorious hobby of I.T has price ever been an issue when you have £200 "gaming" keyboards :p

The last LAN I had was 100Mbps so having 1GbE has blew my mind.

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You are right though, 10GbE is expensive but I would love to have a crack :D

Still blows my mind that 10GbE is a "thing" over copper and taking that into account, the price is not that bad (when compared to fiber) :D

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whats the benefit of using 10GBE when your on a commercial ISP like virgin? sorry I'm not very clued up on networking.
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As bledd as already said, such a nework is more for internal data transfers, streaming high quality audio/video etc. Switching to 1GbE has enabled ALL the computers to max out the external internet connection (Obviously not at the same time, but you know what I mean).

I have been playing around with game install folders being hosted on a central SSD "server" with multiple clients accessing them and so far, it works, even on 1GbE, would love to know how it fare on 10GbE. I also want to look into HDMI over ethernet too. Feeding terrestrial TV signal around the house. For all of that, bandwidth can soon be eaten away if multiple clients are in use.

If you are running for example 4 PC's in a single room, unless you have originally fed that room with 4 dedicated connections, those 4 will be sharing a 1GbE connection.

A single or 2 10GbE connections can be fed to a single switch making things much tidier. More the merrier though.
 
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Gimpymoo said:
I have been playing around with game install folders being hosted on a central SSD "server" with multiple clients accessing them and so far, it works, even on 1GbE, would love to know how it fare on 10GbE.
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You probably aren't even consistently maxing out the Gigabit connection.
I also want to look into HDMI over ethernet too. Feeding terrestrial TV signal around the house. For all of that, bandwidth can soon be eaten away if multiple clients are in use.
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HDMI over Ethernet (IP or not) is just that. A HDMI signal goes in, and a HDMI signal comes out (potentially in multiple locations). You only get to see the single channel the sending device is outputting at that time. Not a viable replacement for a terrestrial aerial.
If you are running for example 4 PC's in a single room, unless you have originally fed that room with 4 dedicated connections, those 4 will be sharing a 1GbE connection.

A single or 2 10GbE connections can be fed to a single switch making things much tidier. More the merrier though.
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Better to run the four cables in almost every way.
 
as bremen says, just run multiple cables from a single central switch.

The only way I'd benefit from a 10G link is for backups. Nothing I do in normal use comes close to maxing 1G.

Dedicated 1G links is a must though imo. If you're sharing SSDs on a central NAS, then you might benefit from a 2 port NAS and a smart switch that can do LACP (this is where you 'trunk'(combine) 2x 1GB links to give a device 2GB bandwidth.

-Note that single file transfers are limited to a single link speed, so 1GB is the max to any machine.
 
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Are your DAC cables very long though?

Reason i ask is the ones we sometimes use at work are normally upto maybe 3-4 meters, only ideal for cabling up within a rack, or very messy to the adjacent rack. So don't know if they'd be ideal for cabling up a house.



Internal data transfer.
- Moving data from one device to another
- Backups would be much faster


This all assumes the users backend is enough to rx/tx at a high enough speed. Unless using SSD, you'd need an array of mechanical drives.
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Most are 1m or less - server to switch (minimum 2 per server), some are longer. I have one fibre link I forgot to mention that goes to the lounge to the media PC. Absolutely no need but it's cool :D

My main server uses 8x 10k drives, my backup server uses 16x WD Red 2,5" whatever they spin at. My Veeam backups run at about 300MB/Sec. Sure I could eek a bit more out if I tried.
 
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Most are 1m or less - server to switch (minimum 2 per server), some are longer. I have one fibre link I forgot to mention that goes to the lounge to the media PC. Absolutely no need but it's cool :D

My main server uses 8x 10k drives, my backup server uses 16x WD Red 2,5" whatever they spin at. My Veeam backups run at about 300MB/Sec. Sure I could eek a bit more out if I tried.
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This place never stops making me smile, the IT setups some people have in their homes are truly bonkers!
 
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