2.5gbe

Hi there, New member here, been following the site for years. I'm curious, with the great options for affordable 2,5gbe switches these days, is there a good reason why this D-Link switch hasn't been added to the reviews? Sure, it may not be as cheap as some of the most affordable options, it...

Is there such thing as a PoE-powered 2.5G switch? There are GbE ones, such as Netgear's GS105PE (which even has pass-thru) and 10G ones like Mikrotik's CRS305-1G-4S+IN but seemingly nothing in between. (I'm aware the Mikrotik could accept a couple 2.5G transceivers, but that's not really what...

Hi there! I've been looking for a cheap PoE+ switch that fulfills the following criteria: at least 8 PoE+ ports (1GbE or 2.5GbE) 10GbE uplink port (preferably SFP+) managed (to configure VLANs) rack-mountable low idle power consumption not too loud (will be deployed in a residential building's...

I recently got 2gig internet from Frontier (I am getting around 2.3gbe at the router) and want to revamp my home network to take advantage of the new speed and had some questions getting started. Before this I was stuck at 25-50mbps, so didn't ever really worry about any of my equipment. The...

Hey guys! I want to build a low power ceph cluster! Rejected Xeon "X79" LGA2011 etc I've considered getting some old Xeon LGA2011 or whatever servers from AliExpress which would make cost low, ECC RAM abundant and IO aplenty. But they'll probably idle at at least 60W each for just the...

I am looking for a NIC for my new Dell server. I currently have a 2Gb fiber connection delivered on a 2.5GbE link, but in the mid-future will be getting a 10 gig connection and would like to keep my options open with the NIC. Planning to run pfSense over Proxmox. For pfsense's sake, I was...