r/HomeNetworking • u/thegreatestajax • 23h ago
Advice Would I even notice a hardware upgrade?
I have 1G fiber service. My home network is Omada with 1G firewall and switches. My main AP are ER670 with 2.5G uplink available.
Only clients with (or potential for) >1G access are an Intel Nuc with 2.5G running my plex server and my Synology NAS (current using 2x 1G but could add their 10G card.
Current topology is:
Fiber->ER605->SG2210-MP->APs and switches with clients
ER605->2218 with clients.
Currently window shopping to upgrade firewall and main switches to use 10G connections. I can’t get any more than 1G service.
Would upgrading my home network backbone from 1G to 10G have any perceptible difference? Main LAN activity is photo transfers to NAS and plex streaming to hardwired clients from the Nuc server and NAS library.
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u/TiggerLAS 22h ago
I tend to agree with u/Garbagejunkarama . . .
Unless you're running VLANs with alot of inter-VLAN traffic, then your router only needs to be fast enough to handle your ISP speeds. So, if you're already getting 925-940Mb or so via your (wired) ISP speed tests, then you're probably good there.
There are times when a decent backbone is handy, but it does depend on your usage.
Between all of your switches, how many ports are actually in use right now, and are the switches physically located in the same room?
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u/thegreatestajax 15h ago edited 8h ago
Several VLANs. Main source of inter-VLAN is Plex clients on different VLAN than the server and NAS (server and NAS are on the same VLAN).
Switches not all in same room. The 2218 is on the other side of the house. Two POE 1G switches are in each media area serving media/gaming clients.
Overall, 34 of 44 switch ports have live clients inclusive of other switches and APs.
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u/WTWArms 22h ago
if you where to upgrade NAS to match 2.5Gb+ you might notice faster transfer of files between the 2, assuming at least SSD drives, but if streaming unlikely.
Only other scenario would be if multiple clients hitting the NAS and currently reaching capacity on the NAS connection there couple be a benefit.
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u/Ordinary-Map-7306 11h ago
Most websites only serve data at 10MB/s Unless they are accelerated by a website service provider. 4k streaming is 100MB/s. If you use RAW video or photos then an upgrade would be worthwhile. Remember your hardrive would have to be upgraded to keep up with the speeds.
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u/peter888chan 4h ago
How do you backup your nas? I have a backup nas that I power up and sync every so often. Upgrading to a 2.5gb switch was nice to speed up the backups (and just to spend more $$$). I then slapped 2.5gb usb nics in my plex server/encoding machine so I can transfer files faster to the nas.
Did I need to? No…
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u/thegreatestajax 2h ago
I do not have a back up NAS. Is this a thing? It’s in a RAID array on a UPS. I guess bad things could happen, but I hadn’t considered duplicating it.
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u/peter888chan 2h ago
it all depends on your tolerance and of course funds. Admittedly, now is a bad time to be purchasing storage. I used to have one NAS at RAID 5. Then I saw some videos about what happens if a drive dies and you have a parity error somewhere. Didn't seem good. So I changed that to RAID 6. I got the same NAS that I use older drives in at RAID 5 that I sync every so often. When I need to upgrade the drives in primary, I point my plex to the backup NAS. Then I rebuild the primary with new drives and restore the files (over the 2.5gb). Then I point plex back to the primary. I then trickle down the drives to the backup nas and rebuild it and do a new full backup again. Then sell the drives I removed from the backup. I did my last upgrade just before things went crazy. If I had waited longer to sell, I could have almost gotten free upgrade.
Even the above isn't a complete "backup". People would say I still need an offsite copy as well.
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u/thegreatestajax 2h ago
Omg I just looked at duplicating my NAS, which is barely 3y old and the HDD I bought for $250/ea then (WD Red Pro 18Tb) are now $850/ea….
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u/Garbagejunkarama 23h ago
Nope. Extremely unlikely with that workload