dane wrote:
That’d be fine for a 10G switch, but you also need a router to go in front of it. The same vendor’s Dream Machine Pro is the only reasonably priced one that I know of. And it only gives a single 10G port, so you’d need the switch too.
https://store.ui.com/products/udm-pro
The the config would be:
Sonic Fiber Optical Network Terminal
|
Ubiquity Dream Machine Pro
| \\\\\\\\
| Up to eight 1G connected devices
|
Ubiquity 10G switch
/ | \
Up to three 10G connected devices
If you need more than three 10G-capable (or 2.5Gbps or 5Gbps), you could chain another 10G switch, which would gain you two additional usable 10G ports for each switch you chain.
What I’m not finding in the Ubiquity product line is any WiFi access points that uplink at >1Gbps. I know that Orbi and Netgear (which are fully integrated routers and access points in one) do, but those devices don’t output 10Gbps on the wired side.
The Ubiquity setup above does, but what access points to pair it with?
There's currently only one UI access point that is greater than 1Gbps, which is the Access Point WiFi 6 Enterprise with a 2.5Gbps port. It is also the first offering with WiFi 6E. But it's in UI's Early Access program.
My current setup is similar to your suggested config:
UDM Pro -> USW-Pro-Aggregation -> USW-Enterprise-24-POE -> U6-Enterprise and other access points.
The USW-Enterprise-24-POE has twelve 1Gbps POE ports and twelves 2.5Gbps POE ports. I have one U6-Enterprise, one U6-Professional and two U6-Lites in my setup.
I think 1Gbps or 2.5Gbps for access points is plenty for now. Anyone trying to intentionally access >1Gbps is really those that want the best (especially latency) and would always prefer a hard link. I assume not many residential customers would come close to saturating 10Gbps, 2.5Gbps or even 1Gbps wirelessly. As for business customers, they would have multiple access points strategically spread out.
I currently have Sonic's AT&T 1Gbps fusion service and my setup is definitely an overkill, but I have the setup mainly for accessing my NAS at 10Gbps. I'm looking forward to the 10Gbps rollout so I can justify my overkill (and overpriced) network to my partner.
