Hard to find any decent 2.5Gbe switches below $150 so thought this was worth posting. Shipping time estimate is pretty wild.
Usually dispatched within 1 to 4 weeks
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Just gotta wait for nbn to catch up
You can have more than one NBN service to your property…
Not more than one 1Gbps at a time per NTD however.
it looks so weird with all this "empty" space on the sides.
That is for the speakers if you want to install some.
Came here to see the comments on the switch. Left with some stickers. Thanks!
Moving to 2.5 gbps was probably one of the best investments i made. Moving large files over local LAN is so much faster.
I refuse to invest in anything less than one order of magnitude better. In a couple of years 10Gbps will be the go.
That was also my plan until I saw the prices of 10gbps components. I cry evrytim
Yeah it's not a jump it's a rocket ship.
Like going from 10 speed on a bike to 12 speed, inexplicably just 4-10 times the cost.
The last 10Gbit switch I saw was $800
Edit: looks like a casual $550 https://www.mwave.com.au/product/tplink-tlsx105-5port-10-gig…
@Telios: Totally agree. The problem is the switch is only one component and then the rest. You have to be freaking desperate and have money to burn to wire up a 10 Gb network when the fastest file transfer you could do on a NAS is 2.5 Gbps and for them to produce one that has a 10 Gbe LAN ability will be so damn expensive it'll only be made for a business environment.
I'll put in my calendar 2 years from now so I can see for myself that 10Gb standard won't happen within that time, 5 years if you're lucky.
Well when your hdd can read and write at that speed, 10 Gbps would work. But with the nas drives limiting speed of 240-280 mbps, 2.5 Gbe is good enough
Unless you have big data on SSDs and they would really improve your i/o speeds
three qvo 8tb in raid 5 top out at 350Mb/ on a qnap ts464
@snickerz: Just to clarify, did you mean 280 Mbps or 280 MBps? Because 280Mbps = 35MBps which is pretty damn slow for LAN transfers.
I've been waiting for 10gbe to be a sane price for 10 years, good luck.
One could almost say about 2.5x faster!
Oh I need the PoE version so I can use it for Unifi 6E AP. Currently running with 1GBps uplink.
Injector?
No currently I’m using TPLink PoE switch 1Gps. So the uplink of AP is only 1Gpbs.
No I mean can you use an injector on your 2.5gbe connection?
Are there any negatives with having two switches in a home network? One 2.5G switch for connecting computers and server and one Gigabit POE+ switch for cameras?
any negatives
Nah, not at all. Your use case means two separate devices makes the most sense.
No
$99 here 'in stock at supplier' https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/networking/switches/8738… for anyone looking for pickup to save a few $.
haven't got anything from scorptec that was 'in stock at supplier' so don't know what that means in collection times.
Friends don't let friends buy TP-Link. Honestly one of the worst brands in tech I've ever come across…
For an unmanaged consumer grade switch, you're not going to notice much of a difference.
It's also unmanaged so it's just pumping data with no real control or monitoring.
Bigger hose more water.
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Price in title please