An LTT video focusing on a whole home 2.5 Gbe setup?

[Stopsongreen]

With ISPs in the US coming out with UpTo 3Gb fiber in some areas, I feel like it's a good time for a 2.5 Gbe network/switch round up. Just doing my own research I found the routers especially to be confusing. Just a nice video clearing out some of the network marketing BS. 

[AnonymousGuy]

2.5Gbe is a weird intermediate gap.  I would be building everything out for 10Gbe which is now pretty reasonable to do for the typical number of devices that might need that much bandwidth, and let the thing auto negotiate 1, 2.5, or 5Gbps.

[Needfuldoer]

It wouldn't look much different from regular old Gigabit wiring. (And that's good!)

 

A home low-voltage wiring primer with Jake, Anthony, and/or Brian the Electrician would make a great mini-series though!

[Helpful Tech Witch]

23 minutes ago, AnonymousGuy said:

2.5Gbe is a weird intermediate gap.  I would be building everything out for 10Gbe which is now pretty reasonable to do for the typical number of devices that might need that much bandwidth, and let the thing auto negotiate 1, 2.5, or 5Gbps.

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wire for 10gbe, youll be able to do 2.5 when you have a 2.5gbe setup, but then when you upgrade and get 10gbe (if you do), you can use 10gbe already with no new wiring.

5 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

It wouldn't look much different from regular old Gigabit wiring. (And that's good!)

 

A home low-voltage wiring primer with Jake, Anthony, and/or Brian the Electrician would make a great mini-series though!

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2.5 would look bassically the same and be wired bassically the same

[Alex Atkin UK]

6 hours ago, AnonymousGuy said:

2.5Gbe is a weird intermediate gap.  I would be building everything out for 10Gbe which is now pretty reasonable to do for the typical number of devices that might need that much bandwidth, and let the thing auto negotiate 1, 2.5, or 5Gbps.

The catch there is 10Gbit is cheaper if you shop used switches, especially if you have a rack, but that older stuff wont do multi-gig.

 

The silicon shortage has also caused stock issues for newer multi-gig hardware.  So its probably not the best time to be doing this.  Speaking as someone who DID.

[Needfuldoer]

6 hours ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

The catch there is 10Gbit is cheaper if you shop used switches, especially if you have a rack, but that older stuff wont do multi-gig.

10 gig enterprise gear is dirt cheap, especially on the used market. Used 10 gig DAC cables are about the same price as Cat6.

 

10GBASE-T SFPs are a little expensive, but multimode SFPs are almost literally a dime a dozen. 

[Donut417]

14 hours ago, Stopsongreen said:

With ISPs in the US coming out with UpTo 3Gb fiber in some areas

More like 5 Gbps. AT&T offers 5 Gbps for under $200. While Comcast chooses to charge $300 a month for 3 Gbps Fiber with $500 for install and $500 for activation. Im pretty sure AT&T only offers 5 Gbps to slap Comcast across the face.