No reason to have a 10Gb router unless you've got one VERY serious fiber-based internet connection, or you're using it as the backbone of multiple subnets at an office.

How many 10Gb ports do you need? I know of two fairly reasonable switches with a 10GbE uplink (2 ports, plus a bunch of 1 gig) -- I'm using the cheaper of the two, the DGS-1510. There are also plentiful similar used ones with 2 or 4 uplink ports.

Those do well if you need to link one server (with a 10GbE port) to a bunch of workstations or set top boxes with 1GbE.

There are also some reasonably inexpensive used 10GbE-only switches, and a non-exorbitant but still expensive (but 10Gbase-T-only, no fiber) couple of 10GbE models from Netgear (XS708E)

There's a very inexpensive router/switch with 2 10GbE uplinks that some coworkers at my last company liked from Miktrotik. Compared to the D-Link, it sounded very non-user-friendly unless you really need the routing features.


If you just have one client needing 10GbE and a server, you can also just direct wire them with two nics, no switch needed.