In a previous post, I talked about upgrading to the UDMPro Max. This was in preparation for upgrading a series of new switches in the house. Effectively bringing our networking speed from 1Gbps to 10Gbps or 2.5Gbps for most of the house devices. Some home automation devices, TV’s, and other media devices will remain at 1Gbps, since this is plenty for what they need.
Another major reason for upgrading the switching speeds is to prepare for WiFi 7 upgrade. Most of the access points supporting WiFi 7 now require at least a 2.5Gbps wired connection in order to take advantage of the full WiFi speed improvements.
Below is my updated networking landscape for now.
New hardware:
- 1 x UDMPro Max
- 1 x USW Pro XG 10 PoE
- 1 x USW Pro XG 8 PoE
- 2 x USW Flex 2.5G 8 PoE
Old hardware (kept as cold standby):
- 1 x UDMPro
- 1 x US 24 250W
- 1 x USW 60W
The last major upgrade was performed about 4 years ago, as outlined by this post. We also installed fibre about 5 years ago and we talked about it on this post, when we added the USW Pro 24 PoE switch with SFP slots.