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ChrisD. said:
It all changes with XGS-PON whenever Openreach decide to roll that out, presumably soon as VM have announced 2 Gbps and a paid symmetrical option in their XGS-PON areas.
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VM already did announce symmetric 2 gig. It'd be really nice to see Openreach push the boat out as well, now that I can get it. :p

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OP, for dual 2.5Gb I'd personally be looking at a mini PC. The tiny palm-sized square ones such as a Topton passively cooled unit or Beelink EQ12 are unbeatable on price/performance. Those two in particular range £150 to £200 if you shop around, and they have an Intel N100 (Alder Lake quad core at 3.4GHz and configurable TDP up to 25W), DDR5, NVMe and dual Intel I225-V3 or I226-V NICs (avoiding the earlier batch issues). Throw OpenWRT or similar on there and they will route 2.5G including SQM without even breaking a sweat. OcUK don't sell this type of mini-PC appliance so I assume the link to AliExpress was OK here.
 
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TheVoice said:
As someone with 1Gbps Hyperoptic, I'd take symmetrical upload speeds over even faster download speeds as most servers and services can't max it out anyway.
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This, I find at times with download servers I can't even max out 1gbps. We have a client at work with a 40gbps connection and things rarely download any faster than 1gbps to 2gbps at most.
 
I have symmetric 500Mbps and don't feel any need to upgrade, it would purely be the pricing making it a "oh go on then" type of decision
 
Rainmaker said:
OP, for dual 2.5Gb I'd personally be looking at a mini PC. The tiny palm-sized square ones such as a Topton passively cooled unit or Beelink EQ12 are unbeatable on price/performance. Those two in particular range £150 to £200 if you shop around, and they have an Intel N100 (Alder Lake quad core at 3.4GHz and configurable TDP up to 25W), DDR5, NVMe and dual Intel I225-V3 or I226-V NICs (avoiding the earlier batch issues). Throw OpenWRT or similar on there and they will route 2.5G including SQM without even breaking a sweat. OcUK don't sell this type of mini-PC appliance so I assume the link to AliExpress was OK here.
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I know this is abit of an advanced question but are you sure this is a good idea? From what I know latest OpenWRT 23 is on kernel 5.15 and the N100 is Alder Lake. That kernel just got Alder Lake support but it's really buggy with most recommending a kernel in the 6 range. I know OpenWRT is getting either kernel 6.1 or 6.4 support in 24 but for now I don't think this would be the best option.
 
GregI said:
I know this is abit of an advanced question but are you sure this is a good idea? From what I know latest OpenWRT 23 is on kernel 5.15 and the N100 is Alder Lake. That kernel just got Alder Lake support but it's really buggy with most recommending a kernel in the 6 range. I know OpenWRT is getting either kernel 6.1 or 6.4 support in 24 but for now I don't think this would be the best option.
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Snapshot is on 6.1 and runs fine, and *sense also runs them. I don't know whether 5.15.134 in 23.05.2 has backported it or not, but often they do. It's also worth looking if the N305 or 8505 can be had in budget, but especially the latter. The 305 is a good chip, but for the price delta the extra cores don't really offer much real world under 10G to be worth bothering with, especially with the higher TDP. The 8505 is a bit of a stonker though if you can drop on one around a similar price point. N100 will do everything anyone needs though, especially in a 2.5G unit.
 
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