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rtho782 · 10-09-2020, 20:10

Personally I'd rather 10g sfp+ than 2.5g NbaseT but the consumer market sees to be heading in the direction of rj45 twisted pair for over 1g, 2.5g rj45 ports are more expensive than 10g sfp+ with DAC cables or cheap fibre sfps and cables.

I have 10g on my router (udm-pro) and a "core" 10g sfp+ mikrotik switch which links to the udm via a DAC cable and my server and main desktop by single mode fibre. The rest of my network is 1g unifi kit. 10g fibre sfp+ modules can be had for about £6 each, whereas 2.5/5/10 rj45 sfp+ modules are more like £85.

I only have 350m right now but find the 10g link useful as it means I can run drives in the desktop as iSCSI targets and it's as fast as local drives.

I appreciate my desires here are not those of the average VM customer!!!

10-09-2020, 20:10	#32
rtho782 cf.addict Join Date: Nov 2016 Posts: 310	Re: Gig1 service Personally I'd rather 10g sfp+ than 2.5g NbaseT but the consumer market sees to be heading in the direction of rj45 twisted pair for over 1g, 2.5g rj45 ports are more expensive than 10g sfp+ with DAC cables or cheap fibre sfps and cables. I have 10g on my router (udm-pro) and a "core" 10g sfp+ mikrotik switch which links to the udm via a DAC cable and my server and main desktop by single mode fibre. The rest of my network is 1g unifi kit. 10g fibre sfp+ modules can be had for about £6 each, whereas 2.5/5/10 rj45 sfp+ modules are more like £85. I only have 350m right now but find the 10g link useful as it means I can run drives in the desktop as iSCSI targets and it's as fast as local drives. I appreciate my desires here are not those of the average VM customer!!!