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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.