Ethernet Switches

I ran into the same wall you probably have right now: my router only had four ethernet ports, and I needed to plug in a gaming PC, a NAS, two smart TVs, a Raspberry Pi cluster, and a PoE camera. After testing 15 switches over 90 days at my home office and a friend's media […]

I spent the last two months stress-testing eight 2.5Gb Ethernet switches in my home lab and gaming setup, copying multi-gigabyte files between my NAS and gaming PC while streaming 4K content in the background. After watching real throughput numbers, monitoring thermal behavior, and listening for fan noise at 2 a.m., I can tell you exactly

I built my first home lab back in 2019 with a single Raspberry Pi and a consumer router. Five years later, after running Proxmox clusters, TrueNAS storage servers, and dozens of VMs across multiple machines, I can tell you one thing with absolute certainty: the day I added a real 10GbE switch was the day