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by nunez 1022 days ago
The BGW350 that they give you tops out at 5Gbit on the WAN SFP interface and has one 5Gbit RJ45 LAN interface along with two gigabit interfaces.

I connected the 5Gbit to a TP-Link TLSX105 10Gbit switch which has five 10Gbit RJ45 switch ports.

Since my office is on another floor and has more stuff that needs to be hardwired, I have a TP Link TLSX1008 10Gbit switch that has eight 10Gbit switch ports.

I connected the two together and, presto, 5Gbit for everyone.

My Macs have OWC 10Gbit Thunderbolt NICs so they can each get the full 5Gbit.

I tried using a Mikrotik CRS switch/router thing, but dealing with SFP inconsistencies is annoying as hell and it was a very slow router. (You need the higher end CCR routers to get 10Gbit routing, but I just wanted to have all of my devices use the Pi-Hole for DNS, which I could do with DHCP.)