[ale] Looks like time for a new wireless router

[Leam Hall]

Interesting. I've never really needed high internal network speed so I had no idea 10G copper was worse. What are the options and rough costs? I'm not sure what the future holds, but since my wife has let me buy servers before, I may need to get back to it.  :P

Leam


On 12/28/24 09:23, Solomon Peachy via Ale wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 08:07:57AM -0500, DJPfulio--- via Ale wrote:
>> b) Get off the "consumer" treadmill and get a generic x86-64 router
>> system (perhaps something from PC-Engines?) and use one of the many
>> x876-64 router distros like OPNSense, pfSense, OpenWRT, etc ... to get
>> 10+ yrs from your hardware.  Don't get wifi with it as wifi standards
>> change every 5 yrs, so you'll want to use cheaper wifi options than
>> any built-in option.  Do you really want to trust wifi at all?
> 
> I'm using an >11-year-old Supermicro 1U server (Xeon 1320v2)
> running Fedora Linux as my actual router; it has 4x GbE ports onboard
> (two in use), plus a pair of 10/25G SFP slots (both utilized) on a PCIe
> card.
>   
> This is plugged into a pair of switches that give me the necessary pile
> of POE GbE and 10G-capable SFP slots currently partitoned across four
> VLANs.
> 
> WiFi is currently handled by a combination of high-powered Engenius
> EAP1200H and EAP1750H access points running OpenWRT.
> 
> I'd love to swap that server out for something less power hungry but a
> pair of 10G (or better) SFP slots is a hard requirement.  (I could
> coalescae that down to one trunked feed but it would halve my
> inter-subnet bandwidth. And 10G-over-copper is worse on every metric..)
> 
>   - Solomon


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