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Gigabit switch on a non-gigabit router? (halubilo.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a fairly old router that doesn’t support gigabit. I also have a network switch that does support gigabit. If I connect two devices directly to the switch, then connect the switch up to the router, will the connection between the two devices support gigabit? If I’m understanding correctly the router would just act as DHCP server and give the two devices a local IP address, but the actual connection between them wouldn’t go through the router at all.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

RB4011iGS+ I have can do (according to routerboard) up to 7Gbps for less than 200€. I've been pretty happy with it with my 1G fiber connection and it doesn't break a sweat while doing that. Granted, I don't run very complex stuff on the thing, but for me it can saturate the bandwidth I have available. From the ISP side I could go to 10G, but I don't have any hardware which could manage it, so I'm not interested (at least for now).

I initially had Edge Router X from Ubiquiti, but it stalled at around 700Mbps, so that thing is now glorified POE switch on my network and majority of the traffic goes trough mikrotik router and it's been rock solid since installation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've read a lot of mixed reviews for Mikrotik. Does yours run hot at all?

The problem with all this, I'm not hosting much from my house so why upgrade? I have symmetrical 500Mbps and sure, 10G would be cool but for what? So my Linux ISO or Game download is super fast? Then I'll need to get an NVME cache disk, or upgrade my storage raid to SSDs... Where does it end?

My little ~$250 CAD Netgate 1100 handles the 500 Mbps. That's really all I need. I only ever hit the limit on Usenet anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I’ve read a lot of mixed reviews for Mikrotik. Does yours run hot at all?

It's a bit different to work with than "usual" brands, but they have all the features you could ever hope for and then some and with my experience over the years they've been very reliable and stable. They have a bit odd models around which have only few 1G ports and the rest are 100M and things like that, but I've been really happy with the 4011 I have.

The model I have now runs at about 40C and it's been on the edge of my network for 4-5 years now without any issues.