I have been in the market for a 10GB switch, preferably something without SFP+, since I don't necessarily want to have to purchase SFP+ Ports, and or Fiber cables, etc. Hoping to get away with CAT5e, or at least CAT6 cabling in house. Currently, I have 8GB symmetrical fiber to my house, and I want to take advantage of it.
I have my router (provided by the ISP at this time, until I can afford to swap this out), and it has a single 10GB output port on it. I'd like to connect 2 internal devices (my desktop, and NAS) to 10GB networking, and all other devices in the house to 2.5GB networking.
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I've seen a bunch that have a various configuration of ports. Example 8x 2.5GB and 2x 10GB ports.
My questions (is probably dumb), but how does this work exactly?
Would one of the 2x 10GB ports not need to act as an Uplink? Thus leaving me with only 1x 10GB port to connect a device? And by that logic, is the switch just not acting as a glorified network extension cable?
Seeing these switches, that have 2X 10GB ports, seems ideal to me, but I just can't wrap my head around how they'd be utilized... why only 2? Where does the uplink go?
Switch Examples:
I have my router (provided by the ISP at this time, until I can afford to swap this out), and it has a single 10GB output port on it. I'd like to connect 2 internal devices (my desktop, and NAS) to 10GB networking, and all other devices in the house to 2.5GB networking.
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I've seen a bunch that have a various configuration of ports. Example 8x 2.5GB and 2x 10GB ports.
My questions (is probably dumb), but how does this work exactly?
Would one of the 2x 10GB ports not need to act as an Uplink? Thus leaving me with only 1x 10GB port to connect a device? And by that logic, is the switch just not acting as a glorified network extension cable?
Seeing these switches, that have 2X 10GB ports, seems ideal to me, but I just can't wrap my head around how they'd be utilized... why only 2? Where does the uplink go?
Switch Examples:
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