Originally Posted by
nkedel
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.
That's what I thought.
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.
Right now, it would be 4 clients but, eventually, it will be 5 or 6.
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.
That's basically what I've got. I have two workstations, another computer set us as a combination NAS/media server/FTP server and a couple of other things, and I'll want ultimately put a standalone NAS on line when 10GbE becomes more common (I have 2 standalone NASes that I use for backup -- I'm paranoid about not losing data).
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)
Yeah, those are too expensive for me. I'll check ebay for 4-uplink switches. Thanks for the tip!
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.[/QUOTE]