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If you’re going to go to all this trouble, please do seriously consider pulling singlemode fibre instead. It is more planning up front, but when you’re ready for your next upgrade cycle, you can reuse the same fibre and change out the hardware on each end.
Has anyone tried the InvisiLight kits? They give you a 600 micron fiber optical link in the kit which you can hide down the side of carpet etc. I haven't tried it but a few YT vids made it look interesting. https://www.amazon.com/stores/InvisiLight/page/DFF3C042-0D2E...
Looks like a complicated and expensive way to avoid running copper. "Up to 1Gbps" is not confidence inspiring, if you really can't put holes in your walls I'd try a powerline kit first for 1/5th the price
What did work pretty well though is MoCa, basically reusing coax/antenna cabling. I get a pretty stable connection roughly equivalent to 2.5G.
I went a slightly different route. My switches are linked with 10Gbps SFP+ across the apartment, but it was way too late (and too much hassle) to pull proper in-wall fiber. Instead I used one of those ultra-thin (around 0.1mm), unshielded fiber cables, and just snaked it through door frames and taped it along the walls. I'm genuinely impressed this stuff exists, it makes retrofitting fiber into a finished space so mu…
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Telus gave me a good price and I'd already invested in a Unifi gateway that could accept the ONT directly, so that was fun to play with.
How else would you connect? Some ISP box? Sorry, I’m not familiar with any other way.
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Looks like a complicated and expensive way to avoid running copper. "Up to 1Gbps" is not confidence inspiring, if you really can't put holes in your walls I'd try a powerline kit first for 1/5th the price
I used powerline before. From my experience its really bad, unstable, slow. What did work pretty well though is MoCa, basically reusing coax/antenna cabling. I get a pretty stable connection roughly equivalent to 2.5G.
MoCa is fine, but if the coax was retrofit replacing it with proper ethernet cable isn't too hard.
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Looks like a complicated and expensive way to avoid running copper. "Up to 1Gbps" is not confidence inspiring, if you really can't put holes in your walls I'd try a powerline kit first for 1/5th the price
This is the YT video I saw about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2FbzCyiNr4 He used different transceivers and got 10Gbs
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Yeah, 10GbE-over-copper switches are SO expensive. I bought a Ubiquiti enterprise switch for my home; 10Gb uplink and the copper ports are split between 2.5G and 1G. It's fine because only 1 or 2 clients can even talk 10G, and those are all across the house on Cat5 links anyway so they only negotiate to 2.5 even on a 10G port. As much as I wanted to "future proof" by having a 24 port 10GbE switch... why? I'll just wa…
The new USM Beast looks interesting. https://techspecs.ui.com/unifi/cloud-gateways/udm-beast?subc...
Also, I didn't realize my UDM Pro was kneecapped at 3-4Gbps IDS/IPS throughput. I think when I bought it I only had a 1 gig internet connection so it was overkill, but now I've got 10gig. It didn't even cross my mind that I had this bottleneck.
EDIT: Nevermind, 1500 american dollars??
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And here I am sitting in Brooklyn and haven't had one apartment that has had fiber as an option. I get to pay Spectrum $90/month for "400/20" and in reality get 100/10.
I was paying 21.9€ per month to TIM for a 10/2Gbit connection Welcome to Italy :D
I might have been lucky, but in the one home and one office were I've connected 10gbit switches and PCIe cards, it has just worked. Especially the office was a nice surprise, because it is at least 20 meters (probably more) of unknown cabling and at least one unknown patch panel between the utility closet where the NAS lives and the desk area. The cables were run 15 years ago, so I expected it to be cat 5, but clearl…
> It really is ten times less waiting than with plain old gigabit. Man I wish I had the kind of money/hardware to get 10gbit disk io out of a nas.
Four or five 7200rpm disks in an array can also sustain it for sequential reads of big files. That costs less than a gaming laptop.
A potato can saturate a 10gbit line if the data is mostly in memory.
For lots of small files in random sequence and cold caches it gets a lot harder.