{"id":3168,"date":"2025-09-04T21:49:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T01:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/?p=3168"},"modified":"2025-09-04T21:52:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T01:52:43","slug":"10gbps-network-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2025\/09\/04\/10gbps-network-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"10Gbps Network Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a previous <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2025\/08\/21\/firewall-migration\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post<\/a>, 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&#8217;s, and other media devices will remain at 1Gbps, since this is plenty for what they need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is my updated networking landscape for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-04-at-9.13.52-PM-scaled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"932\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-04-at-9.13.52-PM-1024x932.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-04-at-9.13.52-PM-1024x932.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-04-at-9.13.52-PM-300x273.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-04-at-9.13.52-PM-768x699.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-04-at-9.13.52-PM-1536x1397.png 1536w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-04-at-9.13.52-PM-2048x1863.png 2048w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-04-at-9.13.52-PM-1200x1092.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Current networking landscape after several switch upgrades.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>New hardware:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1 x UDMPro Max<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 x USW Pro XG 10 PoE<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 x USW Pro XG 8 PoE<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 x USW Flex 2.5G 8 PoE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Old hardware (kept as cold standby):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1 x UDMPro<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 x US 24 250W<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 x USW 60W<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The last major upgrade was performed about 4 years ago, as outlined by this <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2021\/12\/08\/upgrading-usg-to-udm-pro\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post<\/a>. We also installed fibre about 5 years ago and we talked about it on this <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2020\/06\/12\/experimenting-with-residential-fibre\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"984\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post<\/a>, when we added the USW Pro 24 PoE switch with SFP slots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s, and other media devices will remain at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2025\/09\/04\/10gbps-network-upgrade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;10Gbps Network Upgrade&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[67,28],"class_list":["post-3168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-networking","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V6i8-P6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3168"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3175,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions\/3175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}