Upgrade Network

[mick4545]

I am going to upgrade my Gigaclear FTP 400 up and down network as follows:

Upstairs: Ont to eero 6 router.
eero 2.5 port to Netgear 2.5 switch.
NAS 2.5 port to switch
Various other things connected to switch

Downstairs: Netgear 10 port 1gb switch connected by Cat 5e to Upstairs 2,5 switch.
A second eero 6 to downstairs connected by Ethernet.
Various other things connected ranging from 100mb to 1gb.

The important thing is to get the NAS working at 2.5 speed. would this work? would there be any conflict with the Upstairs and Downstairs eero's being on different speed switches. I hope this makes sense.

 

[NetMan]

to get the NAS working at 2.5 speed. would this work?

It appears that there are multiple versions of the Eero 6, it looks like only the pro version has one 2.5Gbps port and one 1Gbps port the other models only have 1Gbps ports.
The Eero 7 has two 2.5Gbps ports and a twin pack of those appeared to be cheaper than a twin pack of the Eero 6 Pro's...

If your cabling is okay then I don't see why it wouldn't work assuming you can assign the 1Gb port as the WAN and aren't going to upgrade to 1Gbps+ internet but if the Eero 7 twin pack is cheaper than the Eero 6 Pro twin pack why would you buy the older version?

would there be any conflict with the Upstairs and Downstairs eero's being on different speed switches

Makes no difference downstairs will just have less bandwidth than upstairs so obviously you won't be connecting to the NAS at 2.5Gbps on any equipment that is downstairs unless you got the Eero 7's / a second 2.5Gbps switch for downstairs.

Edit: Eero not aero I must be in need of chocolate

 

[aaronyuri]

Since you're investing in your setup, I'd bear some futureproofing in mind. If you ever wanted more than 1Gb connectivity to the Internet then choosing something with dual 2.5Gb ports is a no brainer. If you never see yourself going over 1Gb on the Internet connectivity then a single 2.5Gb port to enhance your LAN speed towards your NAS is appropriate.

I'm not too clued up on the Eero and their capabilities, just make sure they can do the appropriate WAN/LAN functionality on the ports that you desire for their usage.

As a suggestion: the GL.iNet Flint 2 is an excellent dual 2.5Gb port router for not a lot of money and is significantly more customisable than an Eero.

 

[brendy]

What drives are in the NAS box that necessitate 2.5gb? NVMEs?

 

[Rainmaker]

What drives are in the NAS box that necessitate 2.5gb? NVMEs?

My old Synology DS218+ has only two 16TB WD Red Pro disks in RAID 1. It still writes faster than 2.5Gb can push **over NFS**, let alone natively. With ZFS, RAID0 or with 4+ drives that would obviously be much faster again. Here's my SABnzbd benchmark results — even this is only running inside a crappy Debian LXC (allocated 4 cores, 2GB RAM) under Proxmox 9. The temporary/download folder is on the Proxmox host (Samsung Evo 850 Pro SATA SSD), and the complete folder is a mounted NFS share passed through to the LXC. Even with all that, the single spinning rust drive easily keeps up with the 2.5Gb link.

 

[Avathar77]

2.5Gb/s is about 300MB/s.

 

[mick4545]

Thanks all I’ll go for the eero 7s. The reason I want the eero is Gigaclear is switching from Linksys to them and support may be better.

 

[NetMan]

Thanks all I’ll go for the eero 7s. The reason I want the eero is Gigaclear is switching from Linksys to them and support may be better.

Then I would plug the downstair eero into your cat5e cable and use the eeros second network port to plug in the downstairs 1Gb switch.

 

[Armageus]

I am going to upgrade my Gigaclear FTP 400 up and down network as follows:

Upstairs: Ont to eero 6 router.
eero 2.5 port to Netgear 2.5 switch.
NAS 2.5 port to switch
Various other things connected to switch

Downstairs: Netgear 10 port 1gb switch connected by Cat 5e to Upstairs 2,5 switch.
A second eero 6 to downstairs connected by Ethernet.
Various other things connected ranging from 100mb to 1gb.

Draw a diagram please

The important thing is to get the NAS working at 2.5 speed.

How are you connecting to the NAS? Might be obvious but unless it's from a PC also on 2.5Gb then you'll never get 2.5Gb speeds

Thanks all I’ll go for the eero 7s. The reason I want the eero is Gigaclear is switching from Linksys to them and support may be better.

As above but with Wifi you'll struggle to get full 2.5Gbps speeds, especially as the eero7s doesn't have 6Ghz support, so you'd be looking at an absolute best case of 2.4Gbps from a 5Ghz Wifi 7 2x2 client (or ~3Gbps if including 2.4Gzhz via MLO).

 

[NetMan]

Draw a diagram please


How are you connecting to the NAS? Might be obvious but unless it's from a PC also on 2.5Gb then you'll never get 2.5Gb speeds


As above but with Wifi you'll struggle to get full 2.5Gbps speeds, especially as the eero7s doesn't have 6Ghz support, so you'd be looking at an absolute best case of 2.4Gbps from a 5Ghz Wifi 7 2x2 client (or ~3Gbps if including 2.4Gzhz via MLO).

From what he has said I pictured it like this:

ONT-----[Eero 7 router]--------[2.5Gbps switch]---------[Downstairs Eero 7]-------[1Gbps downstairs switch which could be upgraded later]
.....................................................|
..................................................[NAS]


The Eero 7 Pro supports 6GHZ but it would be a lot more expensive; he hasn't said what devices he is using but the 2.5Gbps NAS connection would also help if someone downstairs was accessing it at the same time as someone upstairs.



He wants an Eero system but if there's a similar priced router / access point combo with dual 2.5Gbps ports and 6GHz channel support maybe you can suggest one.


Edit why does the forum delete lines with multiple blank spaces

 

[mick4545]

Up and running with a two pack of eero. Very easy to setup, pleased with them.