The original post: /r/homelab by /u/Kalquaro on 2024-12-23 04:01:33.

Hiya,

So. For a homelabber, I am ashamed of saying that my network is still at 1 gig speeds. I’ve already planned the upgrade, I know exactly what I want but it’s a $1200 CAD spend.

My proxmox server and NAS can support 2.5 and 10g respectively but are connected to a 1 gig switch at the moment. None of my workstations have greater than gigabit Ethernet

My internet is 1 gig and my ISP doesn’t offer greater than gigabit internet (yet)

I’m thinking about getting a tp link ER8411 that has 3 * 10 gig sfp and a SG3210X-M2 that has 2 * 10g sfp and 8 * 2.5g rj45. The idea would be for the communication between the ONT, router, switch and NAS to be at 10g and the proxmox server and one or two workstations to be at 2.5 to the switch. I would keep my current 28 port 1 gig switch for 1 gig devices and poe powered equipment (security cameras and voip phones).

The truth is though, I’m not even fully saturating my 1 gig network. Looking at my zabbix graphs, I barely pull 200 mbps from the proxmox server at any given time, with brief spikes up to 500 mbps. Same thing for the NAS, as 99% of its traffic is generated by the VMs hosted on proxmox. Nobody, including me, accesses the NAS directly, it’s all done trough nextcloud which is on a docker VM on proxmox. Or plex. Or immich. Point is, the NAS is just a piece of backend infrastructure.

So if I upgrade, it’s going to be for the cool factor, bragging rights, and shits and giggles. Which, given that I’m an idiot, isn’t gonna stop me.

Help a dude save some money. Or not.