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Realtek, don’t they have issues with drivers in FreeBSD? Or am I horribly out of date.
In any case I’m excited, even if i barely tap into 1gbe capability most of the time.
Not sure if they provide official drivers for FreeBSD. Intel is usually a safer bet in that case.
Realtek Freebsd drivers are 'ok' now, but that was a long fight.
Outside of wifi (I mean Jesus christ) most of freebsd networking got fixed a decade ago, but you still need to stick with common-ish gear.
Freebsd on kvm though, that's a game breaker, especially with sriov mellanox.
To make use of a 10Gb network, wouldn't I also need all of my equipment in between things to support 10Gb? Where am I supposed to get a 10Gb modem for residential use?
3~5Gbps fiber is readily available in a lot of places. And some of us have internal networks with network attached storage and various servers running locally.
I have a NAS and servers as well. Do you have a router separate from your modem that these pass through?
Do you have a router separate from your modem that these pass through?
I'm not them, but I do. I like that my ISP does not have any equipment on my internal network.
I have a separate switch if that's what you mean.
Also the NAS has 10Gbe already, I could have that plugged directly to my desktop for faster transfers until I get a 10Gbe switch.
Point being, 10Gbe at home isn't that far fetched. I've had Gbe for what? 20 years?
So you have NAS to switch, switch to PC? And then that switch goes to the router/modem?
Correct
Thanks, I'll have to consider this setup.
I use 10GbE for my internal network for my Ceph cluster. I’ve come about 80% of theoretical maximum for brief spikes from my NVMe drives rebalancing (mostly HDDs, few SSDs, couple NVMes).
Last part that I need is for SSDs to come down in price to where ~80TB isn't too ridiculous (that's 40TB usable space with RAID1). Cut the price per TB in half two more times to make it there. Otherwise, spinning platters are the bottleneck with my 10Gb network.
Which probably would have happened in the next few years if not for tariffs.
Even without tariffs, the collusion between nand manufacturers to keep prices high meant 2030 would be the earliest that 8tb SSDs would be "affordable"
Where am I supposed to get a 10Gb modem for residential use?
There are a few routers that have SFP+ slots so you can modulate to any laser signal your provider might require.
Otherwise if you're looking for strictly only a modem there are various available. They are usually simply called fiber to ethernet converter. Startek, Delock, Trendnet, FS
If you meant a switch, well 10G switches are abundant. Zyxel, Netgear, TP-Link all the usual suspects.
Even with the sfp+ ports some providers make not using their provided modem a real headache. (Looking at att)
In my experience that's usually the case for XG-PON and XGS-PON networks. Because you're sharing one port on the OLT with up to 63 neighbours. Though I think most build outs aim for 16 or 32 splits.
Anyway they don't want to risk you sending when it's not your turn or disturbing your neighbours connection in any other way, they make you use their ONU. Basically the same old story like with the coax cable modems. Just because some idiot (or rather industry group of idiots) had to go and turn fiber back into a shared medium to save on cable and ports a bit.
as if more than .005% of computer users will actually be able to see any difference whatsoever.
