Question Need help picking a gaming switch for my house. 10Gbps SFP, VLAN tagging, 24+ ports, POE, WAP controller support

[fcar1999ta]

I am looking to get rid of my old Wifi router and get rid of the one that Quantum Fiber (CenturyLink) has acting as a media converter too. So, I will need VLAN tagging to be able to get rid of the Quantum Fiber box. Eventually they will be offering 8Gbps, so the switch will need an SFP port that can a 10Gbps SFP. I want to use WAPs instead of a WiFi router so that I have better coverage and WiFi mesh doesn't work very well outside of a lab environment.

Any help is appreciated!

 

[bill001g]

My guess is centurylink will not allow it. This is how they prevent unauthorized access and interfering with other neighbors on the same fiber.

I am unclear if you understand that the SFP used is GPON or XGPON and not etherent. They make so called "switches" that take these but they are nothing like the consumer switches that take fiber optical SFP. The ones I saw cost well over $1000 without the SFP modules which cost a couple hundred more.

Even if they would allow it there are many different variations of the light colors used and the gpon settings.

I do not know what century link uses lately. It should be possible to set their box to run as a simple modem with the router function disabled. All it will do is convert the GPON signals to ethernet. I do not think you have to do the vlan settings on any new router you purchase the ONT/modem should do that.

This is a extremely common question so I assume their customer support will tell you how you can accomplish this.

Even if they don't....att fiber is a example. You can just disable the wifi radios and run router behind router. The only concern would be if you needed to run some server in your house since you now have the double nat issue. Almost all ISP routers have a DMZ option that forwards all ports to your new router.

 

[fcar1999ta]

I assumed that I could get a 10Gbps copper SFP and connect that to the ONT with the VLAN set. I was told that I could bypass their router if my WiFi router supported VLAN tagging. I assumed the same would be true with a switch

 

[bill001g]

You still need a router the ISP will only give you a single IP address. If you would somehow get a switch to work each device would needs its own public IP.
It would be silly to buy a expensive switch purely to get the vlan tag function. It would just sit between the ONT and the router. This is why it is very strange that the ONT can not do that. Not sure I have not spent a lot of time seeing how GPON really is used.

Before you get real far you need to step back and ask yourself why do you need even 1gbit. High bandwidth is only used for downloading large files. It does not make netflix or game or websurfing run better of faster. Netflix will only use about 30mbps watching 4k movies. Games use about 1mbps and web surfing is limited by how tiny the page size it.

How much downloading do you do a day and how many minutes does that translate into you saving a month. It will come down to how do you pay a month per minute saved.

Your general household doesn't really need more than 100mbps.

 

[fcar1999ta]

The SFP switches are not managed Layer 3 switches? I just assumed if they had SFPs and some had built-in WAP controllers that they were Layer 3. Lol. My bad.

I don't need the speed, yet. Needing 1Mbps was insane just 10 years ago.

 

[lantis3]

searched

https://mikrotik.com/product/crs326_24g_2s_in
https://www.amazon.com/MikroTik-CRS326-24G-2S-in/dp/B087X9D1G2
Passive PoE in
https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:CRS3xx_series_switches

don't know exactly which layer it is

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https://mikrotik.com/product/crs328_24p_4s_rm 24 PoE out
https://www.amazon.com/Mikrotik-CRS328-24P-4S-RM-Ethernet-rackmount/dp/B07C657P7Q apparently wrong picture

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https://store.ui.com/us/en/collections/unifi-switching-pro-ethernet/products/usw-pro-24 Layer 3 switch

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