Connecting Switches to Router

[bledd]

10Gbe is still very expensive.

£250 per network card
£600 minimum on switch
£2500+ for Synology with 10Gbe

Annoying that it's taking so long. Gigabit at home has been there for well over 10 years at affordable prices. Used to be the case that hard drives were the limiting speed factor. SSD and RAID HDD remove that issue.

 

[ov_sjo]

It doesn't have to cost that much, depending on what it is exactly you're doing.

I have a single SFP+ on my router, cheap Intel X520 cards in two servers, DAC cables between them.

The cards and cables came to less than £200. The router was more but that's because it's big and shiny and does lots of other things.

 

[bledd]

Yes, you can go the fibre / DAC route, but it's less flexible at home, unless you've got a splicing kit

www.fs.com , great place for cheap modules/fibre leads.

 

[ov_sjo]

Yes, you can go the fibre / DAC route, but it's less flexible at home, unless you've got a splicing kit

www.fs.com , great place for cheap modules/fibre leads.

DAC is copper.

 

[bledd]

Ah, assumed it was fibre with a thick rubber sheath, never seen it in person

 

[ChrisD.]

Definitely copper, we use them in work.

 

[bledd]

So, OP, fixed the problem?

 

[Danger Phoenix]

So, OP, fixed the problem?

Sorry, I'm not actually back at the family house for at least another week or two. Thought I was going to back this weekend but I had forgotten aobout a wedding I need to go to

Will let you all know when I have managed to swap the cables around

 

[ecksmen]

I always try to keep the least amount of devices connected to the firewall / router as possible and use dedicated switches so that any firmware updates / reboots of the FW do not completely take down the entire network, just the internet & wifi element. Does it make much difference? Nope, but its a person preference and that now everything seems to be ethernet or wifi enabled.

Cheap 16 port tplink switches connect to a Ubiquity firewall and access points.