I finally upgraded the LAN between my servers from 1Gb Ethernet to 10Gb Ethernet.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPR8KLV6

Nice find - last I looked we were still around $300. I, also, want to jump my server machines up to 10GB. They all have 10GB ports and I'm about to upgrade my PBS backup server to 10GB too... thanks for sharing the MikroTik; stupid question, but I can still keep my other switch for the slow things, right???

Yea - my router has more than one port; I'd connect its 2.5GB port to the 10GB switch, and the other to my 1GB switch. Derp...



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Weatherman wrote to Digital Man <=-

Hells bells man... I'm still living in the world of a 100 Mb/s LAN!
Now, at work I deal with 10 Gb and 25 Gb connections (generally 10 Gb
back end and 25 Gb front end).... For me, here at home, 100 Mb is
"just fine." I don't transfer a lot of video from one location to
another an the 100 Mb backbone supports any streaming I do locally with
no issues. But still, I'll bet you get yourself a little swell of
pride to announce your home LAN is 10 Gb. ;)

Boy, does this sound familiar, and I thought I was the only one.
I'm still 100Mb across the board with one 10Mb segment for some of my older machines. 100Mb is "fine" for me based on what I do around the house, but I wouldn't be surprised, if I really did some digging, if I wasn't even getting that.
My cables are so ancient that I wouldn't be surprised if I was having a bunch of dropped packets & overruns



Now I think about it, if I tried moving to 1 or 10Gb, I'd end up taking the network down because my underspec'd file server couldn't take the load with spinning rust and ZFS. I'm starting to depress myself with the amount of upgrades needed here, it seems


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Re: Re: 10Gb Ethernet is now "aff
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Weatherman on Sat Feb 08 2025 09:06 am

At home, I'm still stuck on cable and really need to bite the bullet and go fiber. I'd love to back up 3TB of data on my NAS to the cloud, but at 600/20 with bandwidth caps, I'd be insane to do so.

Where I am, fiber isn't any more expensive than cable internet, and in some cases, it can be cheaper. IMO it's not really a hard decision if you have access to fiber internet service.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: 10Gb Ethernet is now "aff
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Sun Feb 09 2025 07:48 pm

Where I am, fiber isn't any more expensive than cable internet, and in some
cases, it can be cheaper. IMO it's not really a hard decision if you have
access to fiber internet service.

The problem was landline phone service and local TV. I'm happy using VOIP.ms for SIP trunking/service, and am looking into IPTV for local channels. The rest we'll stream.

Ah. I thought some fiber ISPs had a TV package too, but I know some don't.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: 10Gb Ethernet is now "aff
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Mon Feb 10 2025 06:36 am

AT&T does DISH TV, all I really need are a couple of local channels. I'd rather stream everything else.

Do you have good over-the-air reception where you live?

Nightfox

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poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Weatherman <=-

Weatherman wrote to Digital Man <=-

I'm in a position at work where I'm going to be inheriting an IT
infrastructure for a group of 300 employees in 10 offices. Looking at
what I'm inheriting, I'm finding more and more offices running on
cable
connections - typically 300/20 connections.

This. Will. Not. Do. Especially when I'm running an SDWAN over these
links and trying to synchronize files - and I'm going into the office
sometimes with the express need of uploading ISOs and huge files to
other sites!

I think 600/600 is a nice starting point.

At home, I'm still stuck on cable and really need to bite the bullet
and go fiber. I'd love to back up 3TB of data on my NAS to the cloud,
but at 600/20 with bandwidth caps, I'd be insane to do so.

Once I go fiber, maybe I'll make use of my teamed 1GB ethernet links.
:)

I'm in a rural area, the ONLY options are either point to point wireless or some 5G service from a cell provider. Obviously I went with the point to point wireless option, where I'm lucky to get 75 Mb/s downloads and 20 Mb/s upload speeds. When I lived in town we did have fiber service with 300 Mb/s which I sorely miss.

The current service "suffices." We're able to stream to 4 TVs in HD including one that's 4K. Gaming is usually good. I work from home, but most of what I do is either over an ssh connection or browser based over a VLAN. For the most part it does what I need it to do. Given the alternatives, I'd rather live out here on my 15+ acres with 50-100 Mb/s service than be in town...

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Re: Re: 10Gb Ethernet is now
By: Weatherman to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Feb 15 2025 12:15 am

I'm in a rural area, the ONLY options are either point to point wireless or some 5G service from a cell provider. Obviously I went with the point to point wireless option, where I'm lucky to get 75 Mb/s downloads and 20 Mb/s upload speeds. When I lived in town we did have fiber service with 300 Mb/s which I sorely miss.

The current service "suffices." We're able to stream to 4 TVs in HD including one that's 4K. Gaming is usually good. I work from home, but

I'm using 5g internet straighttalk aka verizon.
i pay 35/month and get good speeds. it fluctuates, but it never goes down low.

I am getting better speeds than when i was on spectrum/charter in a large city. i was paying 90 bucks for just internet and it was always raising.
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Weatherman wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I'm in a rural area, the ONLY options are either point to point
wireless or some 5G service from a cell provider. Obviously I went
with the point to point wireless option, where I'm lucky to get 75 Mb/s downloads and 20 Mb/s upload speeds. When I lived in town we did have fiber service with 300 Mb/s which I sorely miss.

I did wireless for a company back in the 2000s in Verizon territory.
Verizon was able to provide DSL to our next-door neighbor, but
determined we were not eligible.

This was in Marin county - there's a big mountain in the middle of the
county, and the wireless provider was across the street. Worked OK, but
was fidgety as hell, considering I could see the other end of the
wireless leg.

It got weird when they wanted access to my router, despite them having
an end-point. The owner kept insisting "he didn't need this job", and
he'd rather be fishing. I couldn't get out of there fast enough.

I had a Netopia router with a serial interface. When we moved and went
to DSL, I reached out to them, and they sent me an ethernet interface
for the router, a new badge and renewed the warranty on the router.
Very cool. They were a local company based in Alameda, CA. I was sad to
see them go.

The current service "suffices." We're able to stream to 4 TVs in HD including one that's 4K. Gaming is usually good. I work from home,
but most of what I do is either over an ssh connection or browser based over a VLAN. For the most part it does what I need it to do. Given
the alternatives, I'd rather live out here on my 15+ acres with 50-100 Mb/s service than be in town...

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MRO wrote to Weatherman <=-

I'm in a rural area, the ONLY options are either point to point wireless or some 5G service from a cell provider. Obviously I went with the point to point wireless option, where I'm lucky to get 75 Mb/s downloads and 20 Mb/s upload speeds. When I lived in town we did have fiber service with 300 Mb/s which I sorely miss.

The current service "suffices." We're able to stream to 4 TVs in HD including one that's 4K. Gaming is usually good. I work from home, but

I'm using 5g internet straighttalk aka verizon.
i pay 35/month and get good speeds. it fluctuates, but it never goes
down low.

I am getting better speeds than when i was on spectrum/charter in a
large city. i was paying 90 bucks for just internet and it was always raising. ---

I imagine that would be good if I had a decent cell signal here. As it is I can only make a cell call if I'm in certain areas of the house. Forget about any 5G connection...



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Re: Re: 10Gb Ethernet is now
By: Weatherman to MRO on Sat Feb 22 2025 01:12 am

I imagine that would be good if I had a decent cell signal here. As it is I can only make a cell call if I'm in certain areas of the house. Forget about any 5G connection...

i have that same issue with cellphone calls where i live but my internet works great.
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