What Speed is your LAN?

Node Operators
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For no apparent reason, im interested in what speed LAN (Not Internet) people are running at HOME. People wanted a Poll, but the stories of how/why are interesting as well. Maybe you ant to upgrade, not sure how - or which equipment to get.

  • 10 Mbps
  • 100 Mbps
  • 1 Gbps
  • 2.5 Gbps
  • 5 Gbps
  • 10 Gbps (Fibre/DAC)
  • 10 Gbps (Copper - RJ45)
  • 25 Gbps
  • 40 Gbps
  • 100 Gbps
  • 400 Gbps
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What LAN Speeds are you using?
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I’m on 10G SFP+/DAC now… but if I had to do it again I’d start with single or dual 25G adapters because they’re affordable… and backwards-compatible with 10G switches.

Plus if your core network is 10G… there are small cheap 2.5G-with-10G-uplink switches you can hang off the side if you need some slower ports.

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Still one card for glass fibre will cost me around 100€. I would need the for both my computer and server. But still I would rely on wifi for my uplink, because I have no way to get fibre to my room. (And only 400Mbit/s connection) So this wouldn’t really make sense for me. 1Gbit is enough for me. (Even when it limits the connection between my server and my pc to 1Gbit).

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Currently on 10Gb ‘backbone’ with a mixture of fibre and copper, and then devices hanging off that with a range of 100Mb to 10Gb.
I’m looking to upgrade to 25Gb or more as my ISP is offering a cheap upgrade to that, but the price of 25Gb switches and a few NICs is somewhat off-putting for now so I’ll wait a bit longer (and probably then be looking at 40Gb+ :wink: )

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I’m running everything network related on 1G, and my SAN is bonded 2.5G on a separate network. It was running bonded 1G before, but I found that power draw on newer 2.5G was a smidgen lower, and since I had to get additional cards anyways (and the price was roughly the same), I decided to upgrade.

I see absolutely no reason to upgrade beyond these speeds for my current purposes.

I used to have a couple of x520 cards, but they were hot, power hungry and I did not properly use them.

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I’m curious who will be the first man on the planet usind 400Gbps LAN at home… :nerd_face:

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Perhaps Elon M. and his home based AI, including an satellite uplink to colony on Mars. :globe_showing_americas: :rocket:

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Nah, I think it’s more possible that Linus from LTT is there first

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With a switch from Temu :zany_face:

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Unbeleivably Cheap 40G/10G

Getting Close to 400G - Bit Pricey

11

Upfront cost — yes. But then you see this….

Power Consumption

  • Typical: 75W
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Thats not that excessive for a switch of these speeds.

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Pehaps; but it’s definitley excessive for the stated reason:

As an exampl, my electicity costs $0.50/kwh. 75W is $27/month. At that rate cost of the switch itself is irrelevant.

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