New Home Internet w/ Gigabit!

[CubisticWings4]

Good Afternoon and Happy Monday, Everyone!

 

My wife and I are building a house in a few weeks and I had some questions.

 

Our house will be utilizing a gigbit internet connection provided by CableOne.

 

I personally want my PC's to have 10gig connections to our home server, but I know just enough about networking to get myself into trouble.

 

Can anyone provide me with a good start for building a 10gig router for the house "on the cheap." (ugh.. I hate using that term in this case since I know "10gig is something relatively new to the home consumer compared to more enterprise users" and is gonna cost more compared to the more mundane gigabit uses.)

 

I have heard of people using pfSense for routers, but I am  not totally familiar with it.

 

I'm a bit of a "poweruser."

 

I also want to have a home steam cache and 4k streaming library, hence the desire to utilize 10gig networking.

 

If I am missing something/anything, please bring it to my attention so we can discuss it further and get a more fleshed out solution.

 

 

[paddy-stone]

Unless you were planning moving a lot of data around, you probably wouldn't need 10 gig ethernet. Definitely not for streaming 4k, unless you were planning on having quite a few streams concurrently IMO. Even very big bitrate streams could fit around 8-10 streams on gigabit IIRC, haven't tested that as I only have around 3 devices that can stream 4k.

That being said, there are a few youtube vids around about going about getting 10 gig ethernet and router cheaper... but it's still not cheap. If I can find one i'll link it, but it's not just plug'n'play from what I can remember. For the amount of times that you would actually saturate gigabit network streaming in home, it probably isn't worth it. If you had a job that relied on having a very fast connection to the server as that was where you edited your footage or something, then I could understand, but for just home media use, I'd say no.

[Alex Atkin UK]

Well a 10Gig "router" is a none-starter.  Even pfSense can't do that right now on the best hardware and the cost of the power consumption seems kinda pointless if all you are going to need is Gigabit for quite some time.

 

But if you want 10Gig between PCs then building a 1Gig router and using a 10Gig switch for everything to plug into should be perfectly doable, although not really worth the cost IMO.

 

I have 10Gig to my NAS and everything else is 1Gig.  It just prevents the NAS from bottlenecking if more than one client is trying to pull files off it.  You really have the weigh how often you are going to be needing more than 1Gig between clients vs the cost of the network, which would be quite high.

[CubisticWings4]

okay guys. i think this will set me in a better direction. I'll hop back on once I get home. and shoot some more questions at you guys.