Kind of interested in what network speeds people are running at home. Not really interested in brands of equipment, or how it’s configured - just speed.
1G LAN has been around for around 20yrs. Most of my 10G NICs are 10y old models.
My LAN runs on 10G fibre mostly, with 20G (2x10G Bond) uplink between switches, 2x Wifi6 Access points, for slower equipment I use 2.5G Switches with 10G uplink.
Used 10G SFP+ and DACs for 90% of it… but cheap dual ConnectX-4 2x25G NICs in strategic systems so one link can be 10G/SFP+ to the main network… and the second link can be 25G/SFP28 direct (like from storage to hypervisor).
For me 10G was cheaper than 2.5G. 25G NICs/cabling are affordable… but at the time switches were still a bit expensive so I stayed on 10G core.
(people that upgrade from 1G to only 2.5G are doing it wrong )
No shame. But this is kind of what Im interested in. The amount of people still on 1G and happy with it or see no reason to upgrade.
And the amount of us that are speed . I keep looking at 40G equipment, ATM I can talk myself out of it (I don’t need it), but if I see a cheap switch - I may cave - but then the storage will need a speed upgrade - but the car “needs” a supercharger upgrade.
What are people doing in their home network to ”need” 10G fibre? I’m running 1G copper and see absolutely no need for anything faster. Could probably do with 100 Mbit/s too, honestly..
1Gbps/500Mbps fiber internet connection. The LAN flows only through 1Gbps ports… and maybe some printers and IoT with 100Mbps.
There are wifi APs with wifi 6 and enough bandwidth for what I need.
I don’t see the point in using switches above 1Gbps because the main traffic is between local devices and internet.
Why shoud I use 10Gbps ports in my LAN?
I like the Unify ecosystem with the level 2 switches and 2.5Gbps and above ports, to be able to creat vlans and separate traffic, but they are too expansive.
I have a question too: why do people activate WAN router management? What could you possibly set on your router so frequently that you need to do it when you are not at location? Why do you want to get hacked and become a bot?
Or SSH/terminal? Why?
In my area, 3G/3G fiber internet connections are affordable. And I think anyone that starts using SSDs in their homelab quickly finds out their 1G network is a major bottleneck to any shared storage. With 10G NICs starting around $20 and used switches being cheap (even new can be around $100) it doesn’t cost much to upgrade. Even new WiFi has blown past 2.5G connections.
LAN is 1G. That is as fast as my Internet up/down speeds are.
I also have a 10G between my TrueNAS server and my main computer. Why? I wanted to reduce the backup time of my computer to the server. Was it really important that I do that, nope, not at all. I wanted to see if I could make it work, and it does.
It would be too expensive to rewire my house for anything faster, also, while it may be a bottleneck, I think the question should be, do you need faster and are you willing to pay for those changes to the infrastructure to make it all work faster (switches, cabling, router)? What would you really gain, besides bragging rights? For some people they might need the speed, but I doubt most people would need it.
There were some tests on YT with different eth cables. The good old CAT 5e was performing very good with higher speeds. If the distances are not too great, it could surprise you what it can do.
So, in a small-medium size home, maybe you could upgrade the hardware without the need to change the cables. Just do some tests.
I don’t know if shielding improves the performance in these conditions, but I believe FTP CAT 5e it’s pretty good and you don’t need to change it. If you only have UTP, test it, maybe it’s good enough.
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. I keep looking at 40G equipment, ATM I can talk myself out of it (I don’t need it), but if I see a cheap switch - I may cave - but then the storage will need a speed upgrade - but the car “needs” a supercharger upgrade.
I’m running 1G copper and see absolutely no need for anything faster. Could probably do with 100 Mbit/s too, honestly..
