Affordable multigig router?

[LordHiler]

I'm work from home doing light content creation and my storage is a NAS. I am able to fully saturate my gigabit network with the NAS and would love to do better. NAS can aggregate multiple gigabit ports and my desktop has 2.5gb NIC. I also have gigabit FiOS and my current router apparently can't route at line speed because I've confirmed an upsetting amount of overhead at the router. I'm leaving performance on the table.

 

Hardwired network cables are all CAT6a so I'm good to go, just need a router with multigig capability, as affordably as possible. Would love 2.5gb ports but they aren't essential. Can't afford most 10g equipment I've seen. In a perfect world wired only as I have wifi access points hardwired on all three floors of my town home. I just need to be able to plug them into a router. And I need that router to support multigig. And I need to not be broke by the time I'm finished. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Id get. multigig switch, then you don't need the router to support multigig, and its much cheaper that way.

 

What router do you have now?

 

What budget we thinking?

[charlie_root]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Id get. multigig switch, then you don't need the router to support multigig, and its much cheaper that way.

 

What router do you have now?

 

What budget we thinking?

I agree with this. 

 

The most affordable way to get a multi gigabit router is probably to build a pfSense box with a good CPU and a 10 GbE NIC. Even then, you'll probably be buying a multi-gigabit switch anyway. But you don't really need your router to handle more than 1 Gb; as long as your computer and NAS are on the same switch, all traffic will just go through the switch to the two devices.

[LordHiler]

I agree except that I'm also losing WAN bandwidth to overhead. If I plug straight into the ONT with cat 6a I get close to full gigabit speed. I lose 100-200mb/s throught the router. 

 

Router is Google WiFi with three pucks all hardwired as access points on CAT 6a. 

 

Since I probably can't afford to builf a PF sense box do you have a recommendation on a switch in the meantime? 

[Electronics Wizardy]

7 minutes ago, LordHiler said:

I agree except that I'm also losing WAN bandwidth to overhead. If I plug straight into the ONT with cat 6a I get close to full gigabit speed. I lose 100-200mb/s throught the router. 

 

Router is Google WiFi with three pucks all hardwired as access points on CAT 6a. 

 

Since I probably can't afford to builf a PF sense box do you have a recommendation on a switch in the meantime? 

FOr the switch, how many ports do you need?

 

Id probably go with one of those 24port mikrotiks with 2 sfp+ ports, and use those for your desktops/nas. And put in 10gbase-t adatpers if needed.

 

Then id get seprate access points, like the unifi ones, and a pfsense box. 

 

Probably about 200-300 for a pfsense box from a used desktop/low end parts, 150 per ap for a nano hd, and liek 200 for the switch + transcievers.

[LordHiler]

13 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

FOr the switch, how many ports do you need?

 

Id probably go with one of those 24port mikrotiks with 2 sfp+ ports, and use those for your desktops/nas. And put in 10gbase-t adatpers if needed.

 

Then id get seprate access points, like the unifi ones, and a pfsense box. 

 

Probably about 200-300 for a pfsense box from a used desktop/low end parts, 150 per ap for a nano hd, and liek 200 for the switch + transcievers.

That is definitely the best way to go, unfortunately out of my budget for the foreseeable future. May have to wait on it. I appreciate the help!

[Electronics Wizardy]

11 minutes ago, LordHiler said:

That is definitely the best way to go, unfortunately out of my budget for the foreseeable future. May have to wait on it. I appreciate the help!

there is a 5 port unmanaged 2.5gbe switch for a 113. 

 

https://www.amazon.com/QNAP-QSW-1105-5T-5-Port-Unmanaged-2-5GbE/dp/B08F9ZL9LY/ref=pd_lpo_147_t_1/139-7575229-4667113?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B08F9ZL9LY&pd_rd_r=fd9dfe8f-9529-4eca-9409-b636f36e9b80&pd_rd_w=IuOUk&pd_rd_wg=HCLVq&pf_rd_p=7b36d496-f366-4631-94d3-61b87b52511b&pf_rd_r=H047MB7DWCWW9A1BDG49&psc=1&refRID=H047MB7DWCWW9A1BDG49

 

Maybe get that first.

 

How big is your house? good wifi + high speed wired routing won't be cheap.

 

[LordHiler]

The switch may be good enough for now! Thanks. The bigger project would definitely be more expensive to do right.