[Almondioco]

I find this sentences very weird:

"the hardware was basically dying, choking on the all the heavy backup traffic that wasn't built to handle gracefully"

Its cleary hardware degeneration nothing to be philosophical about. Its a silicon which routes traffic. It shouldn't 'choke on any type of traffic and it shouldn't die because of it.

Otherwise i'm still not switching to 10g due to energy consumption. Its the switches which need more (if you use copper) and the client ports too.

But i only have one big machine which I do backups to and not even regularly enough that it matters too much.

Fancy hardware isn't more fun if you don't use the features. Spanning tree didn't work properly in my setup. At the end I only use vlan and the whole chain needs to support it. And the only reason for that is dataprotection: Not trusting random shitty IoT devices and i do not want to give them access to my local network.

I do like ubiquity. The switch and Acess Points have great price point and work very well and in comparision to other manufacturres an actual usable good UI.