Is it possible to place a switch before your router in a 10Gbps fiber installation?
Is it possible to place a switch before your router in a 10Gbps fiber installation?
I agree that the decision doesn't make a ton of sense... 1) Money is not SUPER tight but it would be nice to have saved $70 by going with a switch instead if it was possible 2) You're right that there's very little benefit but also, I am a nerd... and internet go brrrr is a valid reason. Plus, for torrenting, it would absolutely help. And I do have my NAS working as file storage for when I'm outside the house, so it is nice to be able to download from the NAS faster too. I share my storage with my mom/dad/sister too so in case of everyone logging on, it helps.
You're correct, but the NAS works well with 2.5GB because it's shared.
Point 2 relies heavily on assumptions: 1) reaching 10gbit torrenting isn’t realistic. 2) your internet connection doesn’t influence NAS performance. Adding a 2.5gbit switch behind the router would only provide 2.5gbit to the NAS. (If the NAS supports 2.5gbit, then your 10gbit internet becomes irrelevant because 2.5 is below 10.) 3) Are there any family members using multi-gbit connections and sending large files to the NAS? If not... it doesn’t significantly impact the situation.
Would you like a network diagram? This setup sounds complicated; using just one router would be simpler. Stick with your existing mesh Wi-Fi and disable nat and routing features. >1GbE won’t improve performance when sharing the network—big setups with less than 1GbE work just fine for browsing and light tasks. I’d save even more by choosing a 1GbE plan instead of 10GbE here.
I shared the network diagram in my initial post and confirmed I updated it to reflect my decision to switch to a new router solution. The $60 monthly fee covers 10GB fiber, and they don’t offer tiered pricing based on usage size. They don’t differentiate between 10GB or 1GB plans.
I'm still in agreement, but it's just a fun side note. I'm happy to skip the annoying Comcast stuff and enjoy my fiber internet instead. 1) It's possible to overwhelm a 10GB line with lots of torrents, even a few popular ones. 2/3) I've had to hide some details about my NAS usage because I don't want to share everything. I think it's okay that I'm using only about 2.5GB, and it's convenient to have it ready when needed. Switching to 2.5GB instead of 10 saves money, which makes sense.
Sharing from a sense of envy, where do you reside with such high-speed fiber internet priced at sixty dollars a month? That rate equates to roughly one hundred twenty megabits per second or twenty megabits per second with Comcast Xfinity, alongside a twenty gigabyte monthly data limit. Ten years ago, my previous home offered five megabits per second via a one megabit cable connection from Time Warner, costing twenty dollars a month, which later rose to thirty and forty dollars.