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2.5g capable SFP+ switch or media converters (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Is anyone aware of any switches (or media converters) with SFP+ ports capable of negotiating 2.5Gbit speeds that don't cost an arm and a leg?

I have the Google Fiber 2 gig plan and I'd like to get rid of the fiber box since they've been extremely unreliable and our 4th one has just died. Unfortunately in order to get the full speeds I need something that can take a 2.5 gig SFP+ connection. 10 gig will not work, and 1 gig obviously only gets me half the speed.

I've found a few Unifi compatible switches, but they're between $600 and $900 which is just insane for all we need.

Media converter wise everything I've found is 2.5gig on the rj45 side and 10 gig only on the SFP.

Something has to exist out there right? It can't only be Google who are the freaks using 2.5 gig SFP modules.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Be wary of the unifi ones. I just got the Unifi enterprise 8-poe and the SFP overheats constantly. There's a bug in the firmware where the fan doesn't kick on, from the forums I read it's because "users don't like fan noise", but uh, I also don't like my switch crashing and freezing to where I have to do a full power cycle to get it back on. If you go unifi read reviews first, get something with active cooling.

If it's just on the first bit of your network, could you do a pfsense/opensense box with a 2.5gig card? Then everything after that could be whatever you need

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Finding a 2 gig capable card is even more of a problem. I've found switches capable of 2.5 gig, eventually I found media converters capable of 2.5 gig. But I haven't been able to find a 2.5 gig capable SFP+ card.