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    Switching to fiber home network - review my choice

    Thank you and everyone for the suggestions. I'll give the Zyopm a try, they already answered and said their stuff can be used with Intel and the module is "labeled" 10G-SR. This will save quite a bit of money, it is crazy how expensive the the RJ45 to SFP+ converters are. Too bad the Realtek...
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    Switching to fiber home network - review my choice

    Thanks everyone for the review and suggestions, I "Legoed" together single mode parts, here is the list, would you eyeball them? Modules server + main computer (+ spare): Intel SFP10/25GBASE-LR - singlemode - duplex - LC/UPC - 1310nm Fiber OS2 - single mode - duplex - LC/UPC to LC/UPC -...
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    Switching to fiber home network - review my choice

    Thank you for spending time checking my question. Could I ask what would be the benefit of that? Based on my very basic knowledge on short distances should not make much differences. I was thinking and had to spent significant amount of time trying to "Lego" parts together using singlex approach...
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    Switching to fiber home network - review my choice

    Hi everyone, I am new to fiber, would like to switch my internal home network to fiber but since I am new to this I could easily pick incompatible parts so would like to ask some help to review my choices and of course for suggestions. I am trying to do a buy once/cry once approach but I am...
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    Looking for PCIe x4 (physical x4 only) NIC with 1xSFP+ 10GBe

    Thank you for answering. I am planning to get close to 10 gigabit on LAN, not that it will be utilized that much but the hardware will be there. On WAN I'll upgrade from 1/1 Gb to 4/2. Mellanox ConnectX-3 seems to be a solid choice then, seemingly is/was a very popular brand. The plan is to...
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    Looking for PCIe x4 (physical x4 only) NIC with 1xSFP+ 10GBe

    Hi everyone, I am new to homelabbing, I am thinking of upgrading network. As of now I am just trying to learn a few things, exploring options which might not make sense eventually at the end. I'll upgrade my main computer to (probably) an AMD Ryzen 9000 series, motherboard might be Asus X870E...