Tasty...Well, I spent over £2k on two 24 port 10Gb switches. No cost justification needed as I just wanted and needed ultrafast network connections in our residential property for my computer and other devices. This spend gives me much pleasure.
Yes, NASs have 10Gb cards as does my PC. Streaming 4k video is not an issue to all TVs in the house and my 8 HD+ CCTV cameras hog the bandwidth. A 1Gb network just did not cut it and 10Gb solved everything with no video or flac file buffering.Tasty...
If that’s Ubiquiti or similar, I totally understandWell, I spent over £2k on two 24 port 10Gb switches. No cost justification needed as I just wanted and needed ultrafast network connections in our residential property for my computer and other devices. This spend gives me much pleasure.
I certainly will ! As soon as it becomes cheaper than buying it from the grid !
A pair of these Netgear LambdaTek Component Shop - CPUs, Memory, Monitors, Printers, Storage, Networking, Software + more The whole backbone of our property runs at 10GbIf that’s Ubiquiti or similar, I totally understand
Now that is some serious kit! There’s only the two of us so I just fed the LAN from my Bipac router direct to a 8 port gigabit switch and wireless AP in the lounge, same to the annex and to a wireless AP in the garage. As long as the TV doesn’t buffer during Crufts I’m in the clear.
There are only two of us now. We have VM 1Gb and I use a Draytek 2927 to connect the router to one of the switches. I do quite a bit of video editing and all my data is on a NAS, so speed is vital when editing files that are 10GB plus, a fast LAN is needed.
We get 23mb/s out of 35. The fibre cabinet is half a mile away. My in-laws live next-door-but-one just a couple of hundred yards away. my copper line takes the short route, theirs goes the long way round the green and they get just 13mb/sThere are only two of us now. We have VM 1Gb and I use a Draytek 2927 to connect the router to one of the switches. I do quite a bit of video editing and all my data is on a NAS, so speed is vital when editing files that are 10GB plus, a fast LAN is needed.
Our property has solid walls, so Wi-Fi does not travel well, so I had to add multiple APs for phones and iPads.
I had to put an Access Point into the garage for the Tesla, and the 4 ports are connected to the Gateway, two inverters and the 10Gb Switch.
I think us techies like things to be just right be it PWs, networks or computers.
Oh dear, I get 750Mb down and 48Mb up, and that is via a VPN; removing the VPN speeds up the connection. Our biggest problem is very poor 4G signal (no 5G) with dropouts and disconnections normally, so I had no alternative but to fit a 4G repeater for data and voice. We are lucky, Virgin re-ran the cable from our place to the cabinet after some would be cannabis farm growers damaged the cable by mistake. We don't use gas. At least you generate a lot of solar power.We get 23mb/s out of 35. The fibre cabinet is half a mile away. My in-laws live next-door-but-one just a couple of hundred yards away. my copper line takes the short route, theirs goes the long way round the green and they get just 13mb/s
The neighbour between us fares even worse and has a 5G dish instead. I’m not sure we even have 5G here but it works.
Come to that, we don’t get mains gas or sewerage either.
Round here that’s not download speed, that’s credit score
I can only manage a pedestrian 514Mb down, but I get 49.8Mb up on my phone. I don’t have an AX router though.
This forum has been very useful in convincing me to get 2 PW after I initially ordered only one. You can do that because you have two, I can't store enough solar during the day when there is lots of spare power and I have to dump it in the cars or the grid, and then I have to import later in the day, like today as it's been cloudy when I'll be on grid at 11pm and will be paying an extra 25p for my power today.Last 5 days now we've been 'off-grid' with zero Grid imported or exported. Just using Solar now for home & car charging.
I messed up one day, and spilled some Solar Juice onto the Grid... but Export is only 2% so far... using most of it.
We're not a Solar 'heavy puncher'... we're more like MMA rules... grappling the last drop of Solar Energy into Submission
This UK mini-heatwave forecast coming will be exciting, might be off-grid for rest of the month.
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Here’s mine for today. I couldn't save enough yesterday to avoid the 5p kWh import over night and as it was cloudy today I had to pay 15.59p per kWh this eve. However, I’m tracking for about £45 for May that will be a big improvement over no PW. The Octopus Compare app is cheap and good.... you'll like it.
For me, it's not the saving a few pence.
It was the enjoyment of building a really well balanced slick system. Tesla gave me most of the components and all of the integration that I wanted.
It's been a very enjoyable project.
Getting any ROI is just icing on my cake
Edit: Oh, and another day 'off-grid' today
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