Hi everyone,
I am planning to expand my home network and move it (or at least parts of it) to 10 GB. Currently, I have the following setup:
1. Laundry room: in-wall media enclosure (see picture here):
I am planning to extend my homelab with more kubernetes nodes, UPS etc and I came up with the following requirements for the switches from a port and connection speed perspective.
For the laundry room:
I am planning to run two fiber cables from the laundry room into the office closet so that I have the option to move to 25GB or 40GB in the (far) future, but I also read that fiber runs less hot, has better latency and consumes less power.
Office Closet (server room):
I would like to future-proof it (as far as that is possible and makes sense with technology of course), but I also would like to have an energy-efficient setup that is as quiet as possible. Based on what I read here on reddit in the past days and weeks, my favorite brands are so far Unifi and Mikrotek, but I am open to additional ideas. I really like the Unifi UI and it would integrate nicely with the existing NVR and Camera setup. Unfortunately, they do not seem to have an affordable PoE switch with enough ports for 10GBe. Based on my research, I have the following switches shortlisted:
Thanks for some thoughts!
I am planning to expand my home network and move it (or at least parts of it) to 10 GB. Currently, I have the following setup:
1. Laundry room: in-wall media enclosure (see picture here):
- Modem (Spectrum)
- Switch (Ruckus ICX 7150-C12P)
- Router (AliExpress mini PC) running pfSense. The device also runs pi-hole as well as some essential homelab services
- Unifi CloudKey
- Lutron bridge (For Lutron Caseta light switches)
- The builder terminated all cables into this enclosure. All rooms are equipped with Cat5e and I am also running a few cameras through PoE.
I am planning to extend my homelab with more kubernetes nodes, UPS etc and I came up with the following requirements for the switches from a port and connection speed perspective.
For the laundry room:
I am planning to run two fiber cables from the laundry room into the office closet so that I have the option to move to 25GB or 40GB in the (far) future, but I also read that fiber runs less hot, has better latency and consumes less power.
Office Closet (server room):
I would like to future-proof it (as far as that is possible and makes sense with technology of course), but I also would like to have an energy-efficient setup that is as quiet as possible. Based on what I read here on reddit in the past days and weeks, my favorite brands are so far Unifi and Mikrotek, but I am open to additional ideas. I really like the Unifi UI and it would integrate nicely with the existing NVR and Camera setup. Unfortunately, they do not seem to have an affordable PoE switch with enough ports for 10GBe. Based on my research, I have the following switches shortlisted:
- Unifi Enterprise 24 PoE ($800 - laundry room, not enough 10GB ports, but 2.5GB ports)
- Unifi USW-Aggregation ($540 total - server room - I would need 2)
- Mikrotik CRS328-24P-4S+RM ($500 - laundry room)
- Mikrotik CRS317-1G-16S+RM ($500 - server room)
Thanks for some thoughts!