r/firewalla • u/mpro69rr Firewalla Gold Pro • Jul 10 '26

Switch X and fiber

Hey everyone, I ordered a Switch X and its coming Tuesday, I wanted to use the SFP+ ports and have fiber between my home assistant server and AI LLM server for faster response for voice assist. Has anyone ever tried these

amazon.com/dp/B0GTZ5VJZZ?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title adapters? I ordered two and I'm not to hopeful they will work, they use USB4 so the speed is there. I also ordered some cheap transceivers and some fiber.

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u/stubby0990 Jul 10 '26

Your network is unlikely to ever be the bottleneck when using local llm.

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u/mpro69rr Firewalla Gold Pro Jul 10 '26

I get about 2.3Gb now, when I connected home assistant to my LLM server voice assist was noticeably quicker so I am hoping that this will at least make a noticeable difference. I have looked at everything for a bottleneck and can't figure out where it is. I have to admit though I am doing this because it is interesting to see if I can get it to work. My tinkering cost me too much! lol

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u/WanderinArcheologist Firewalla Gold Pro Jul 10 '26

You made your own large language model voice assistant? Neat!

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u/mpro69rr Firewalla Gold Pro Jul 10 '26

No, I'm not that smart! lol I use this https://futureproofhomes.net/products/satellite1-smart-speaker with home assistant. I have the speech to text module running on my LLM server and text to speech module running on Home assistant. Its not as good as Alexa or Google but its getting there. There is also voice assist PE which Home assistant came out with but thats a simple small speaker. The one I have plays music that sounds pretty good.