Hello, MikroTik community. I'll start by saying that I am working as a Storage engineer for a large IT company. My role is to rack/cable/configure enterprise servers storage using FC/iSCSI/DAS and so on. I am knowledgeable enough to cause trouble. But when it comes to networking, I'm as dumb as one can be. Here's where I need your help, please.
My local ISP (Sonic internet) has upgraded me to a 10Gbit Fiber. I mean great, but I'm not expecting to get that speed over WiFi. I know what a bottleneck is. The ISP's modem has two ports, both BaseT. One is 1GbE and the other one is 10GbE. My current setup is a simple Netgear WiFi router with 5 GbE ports. Most of my non-important devices go to the WiFi and then I have a Cat5e running from one of the ports to a simple hub (1GbE switch) to which I connected my computers.
My plan is simple (on paper). I want to upgrade to a 10Gbit network from the modem (located in one room) to my office. I have a CRS305-1G-4S+IN. Here's what I'm trying to achieve:
- Connect my 10GbE from the ISP modem to the sfp-sfpplus1 port of the CRS router
- Connect my Netgear as an access point to the ether1 port of the CRS router
- Connect an LC/LC fiber cable from the router (sfp-sfpplus2) to the office's CRS bridge (sfp-sfpplus1)
- Connect the ether1 port of the bridge to a L2 switch for my 1GbE devices
- Connect the sfp-sfpplus2 to my server
Please, someone tell me this is a valid design... If that works, I may bother you with the configuration of the rest.
Thank you in advance!
10Gbit network and internet
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Re: 10Gbit network and internet [SOLVED]
The crs305 is primarily a switch with some l3 features. With version 7 you can get some l3 hardware offloading of the routing, but that device does not support offloading of fasttrack or nat. Due to this limitation, your speeds, if you plan on using a firewall would be pretty low.
You could try a crs317 or other crs series switch that does support l3 hardware offloading for fasttrack and nat but if you want to use a cpu intensive feature not hardware offloaded, you will be disappointed. You are better off looking at a ccr series router - ccr1009 for ~8gbps or better ccr2004/ccr2116/ccr2216.
You could try a crs317 or other crs series switch that does support l3 hardware offloading for fasttrack and nat but if you want to use a cpu intensive feature not hardware offloaded, you will be disappointed. You are better off looking at a ccr series router - ccr1009 for ~8gbps or better ccr2004/ccr2116/ccr2216.
Re: 10Gbit network and internet
Thanks, that helps. I knew it was too good to be true having 10Gb internet for such a low price 