What you need to know about Wi-Fi 6 (IEEE 802.11ax)

Re:What you need to know about Wi-Fi 6 (IEEE 802.11ax) by glogla on Monday December 26, 2022 @02:22PM (#34140833)

There's a Mikrotik switch with 4 SFP+ 10G ports for ~120 EUR. It would work well with DAC cables in a rack. For use with copper you would need SFP+ modules which are like 50 EUR more each.

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Re:What you need to know about Wi-Fi 6 (IEEE 802.11ax) by simoncion on Monday December 26, 2022 @03:08PM (#34141293)

Yeah, I have 4x CRS326-24G-2S+IN (which is 2SFP+ ports and 24 gigabit ethernet ports) that I'm quite pleased with.

If you're not going to get direct-attach cables, then check out the stuff that 10gtek sells. In the 6->8+ months that I've been using them, I've not had any trouble with their short-range multi-mode SFP+ modules. Also, you can buy them for a little more than 10USD per module if you buy them in 2->10-packs from Newegg.

(And yeah, 10gtek is totally one of those "Direct from Shenzhen" companies that one might worry about buying from. I figured that 10gbit transceivers have been around for quite a while now, so there's no reason they should cost 80USD per, rolled the dice on two separate cheapo 10g transceiver manufacturers, and got lucky when the second (10gtek) turned out to ship a solid product that, like, actually worked and seems to work well.)

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Re:What you need to know about Wi-Fi 6 (IEEE 802.11ax) by 3np on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @12:28AM (#34145405)

We've been very satisfied with the 10gtek SFP+ transceivers and PCIe cards as well so far. Still around 50 each for RJ-45 Cat6a copper though.

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