[Guide] What equipment to buy for Sonic 10 Gigabits Fiber

[panman59]

I am utilizing the 10GB port directly into my AT&T Fiber port.

I Backbone the other ASUS router from the front of my house with ethernet cable to the 2.5 port to the other ASUS router in my family room that is Hooked up to the 10.5 GB port to AT&T fiber. I run 2 separate Wifi Networks.

[jcaseysf]

I can confirm netgear pr60x works well at 10g, full dpi at 10g, an support for all the standard vpn tech needed to connect to corporate networks.

https://www.netgear.com/business/wired/routers/pr60x/

[kennethporter]

A friend who works for Akamei suggested I get the MicroTik RB4011:
https://mikrotik.com/product/rb4011igs_rm
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HBW2NTR/
For about $210, plus maybe $50 for a 10 Gbps SFP+ adapter for the WAN port. The specs look pretty nice for that price.

[conradpino]

If you're looking at MikroTik, consider the RB5009 series:
https://mikrotik.com/product/rb5009ug_s_in
https://mikrotik.com/product/rb5009upr_s_in
which are new design with more NAND storage, same RAM, 64bit CPU with similar base pricing.
RB5009 has one 2.5G port, seven 1G ports; RB4011 has ten 1G ports; both have one SFP+.
Published test results suggest RB5009 outperforms RB4011 routing small packets.
IPSec encryption is where the RB4011 outshines the RB5009.

[imaginecloud]

I'm so jealous. I've been putting in request for upgrades for 10gb at my home in SF for over 4 years. I hope they upgrade the infrastructure soon, there are so many SMB tech startup's in my area.

[drbubbles]

Ubiquiti just launched some new 10Gbps consumer devices, UXG-Fiber with 10Gbps wan and lan ports and the UDR7 with 10Gbps wan and wifi 7 plus a few 2.5Gbps, one with poe. The UXG-Fiber is very tempting even even though I don't even have sonic yet! Will need a controller (I think I can self host that) and an AP.

[ernestl]

Ubiquiti just launched some new 10Gbps consumer devices, UXG-Fiber with 10Gbps wan and lan ports and the UDR7 with 10Gbps wan and wifi 7 plus a few 2.5Gbps, one with poe. The UXG-Fiber is very tempting even even though I don't even have sonic yet! Will need a controller (I think I can self host that) and an AP.

There is also Cloud gateway Fiber, which runs the local unifi controller and full unifi application support. 5Gbit/sec IPS/IDS.

[drbubbles]

Would be nice if the UDR7 could be adopted in AP only mode via it's 10Gbps rj45 with the UCG-fiber (or UXG-fibdr), although I expect that would be wishful thinking. Maybe they'll release a wifi7 ap with 10Gbps uplink and same number of streams as the udr7, i.e less streams than an E7 but still faster than 2.5Gbps.

[kennethporter]

Does any of this hardware provide multi-WAN support? I've got a backup provider and would like to plug their modem into a port for those rare times the fiber is down for maintenance or a weather event. (In the last year, Xfinity was down when a car hit a pole, and ATT fiber was down when one of their distribution sites flooded.)

Right now I have a Raspberry Pi 4B running Debian that's acting as my router. The main gigabit Ethernet port goes to Sonic and a gigabit USB3-Ethernet adapter goes to the LAN. If the fiber is down, it re-routes to my cable modem on the LAN. (It also permanently routes some traffic to peers on Comcast that way.)

[drbubbles]

This review https://youtu.be/jO-CfePkGjg says the ucg-fiber can have any of the interfaces configured as either lan or wan (so can have 2.5G wan and 3x 10G lan if you like). While this one demonstrates failover for the earlier but similar ucg-ultra https://youtu.be/5enE02BDzmQ?feature=shared

So I believe that means yes, with two ISPs connected, the ucg-fiber should provide either load balance or failover depending on whether you select either distributed or failover for wan2 in the setup menu.