Yes! I like it so far. I still like trying other vendors to learn about the products and how to configure them but the Grandstream switches are powering my main “production” network right now! Haha
Thanks for your videos. I'm wiring up my home and they have been very helpful as I have no IT background. I also went with a 48 port switch for similar reasons, but went with a used brocade ICX 6450-48p. Very cheap on ebay. The GUI is... lets not talk about that. The CLI is good enough and the manual online is pretty comprehensive. I'll keep grandstream on my radar in the future. Looking forward to more videos.
You're welcome! Even though the prices are great, I typically don't purchase used enterprise hardware because they are often bulky, heavy, loud, power hungry, require command line usage or have terrible UIs, and sometimes requires enterprise licenses to unlock all features (unless you can hack/patch/disable the license checks to enable all of the features/interfaces). I'm not going to lie-- I have been enticed because of good deals on used enterprise gear, haha. I just have to keep reminding myself why I don't purchase enterprise gear. On the other hand, I don't mind getting used server motherboards from say Supermicro, but I can put it in a large 4U chassis with relatively quiet fans so it's similar to consumer grade in that regard. That's what I did for my TrueNAS system so I could have ECC RAM, IPMI functionality, etc. For less than $200, I was able to get a decent entry level server grade system for TrueNAS: motherboard, CPU, and ECC RAM (not counting the hard drives, 4U chassis, etc that I already owned).
can you please add the setup for this switch to you opnsence network series 😢 I can't figure out how to set the static IP of the switch and the gateway
Sure thing. As I mentioned in your other comment on another video, I’ll verify I have all that info in the video I recorded a while ago. If not I’ll have to record some additional screen captures.
Hope your having a good New Year. I'm starting to get the Grand Stream AP you suggested in your OPNsense video integrated into the OPNsense VM's I'm building and I found this link that I have been watching. At my age my memory is making it difficult to remember the commands for the Cisco 3560G's I was using at my home and replaced them with SG300's because of their web interface. Unfortunately I've been very disappointed with the web interface. Now that you have had the 7806's for 10 months how happy are you with the web page interface?
I think the web interface is great on the Grandstream devices. It looks modern compared to older network switch web UIs. You can also centrally manage everything from locally hosted software or use their cloud based management.
Originally I was going to show the full network build part 3 video using the Grandstream switches (even recorded some video) but never edited it fully because I think I made at least one mistake (or more) since I was new to the web interface back then. Now that I’ve been getting some extra Grandstream hardware to tinker with thanks to Grandstream for sponsoring some hardware, I will do an updated full network build guide. Not sure on the timeline, but I would like to do that within the next 2-3 months at the latest.
That would be great. The SG300 frustrates me but I think some of it is I have forgotten a lot of what I knew about configuring a switch. which hinders me figuring out the SG300. I looked through the 7806 manual and I'm about ready to sell my 300's and buy two 7806's some guy has some for sale and the price is reasonable. I'm doing some searching on the web for some videos or docs to refresh my memory on configuring switch ports. If you know of anything let me know. Are you watching football or just waiting excitedly for my next question?
Waiting excitedly for your next question. Haha jk. I try to respond to comments in between random things I’m doing around the house, etc. Sounds like a plan. I will have some more Grandstream content soon. Also plan to show a full stack configuration with using a Grandstream router to show as an alternative to OPNsense.
Yes. I have 36 drops in my house. I’m using more than half of them and I’m using more than a dozen connections within my rack. I like having all of my drops in my house connected to the switch even if not all are utilized so I don’t have to swap cables around when I add new devices to the network. They weren’t super expensive and it allowed to me consolidate network switches.
Hey there! I got a TP-Link managed GBit switch with PoE and more recently this guy it capping the speed in every port at ~300Mbits/s down and ~150 up. At first I noticed per the internet speed but I confirmed with wired connection and iperf3. I double checked and there no QOS enabled (speed rate etc). Any configuration could cause this or malfunction is more probably the cause?
Weird, I’ve never seen a switch be oddly slow like that with the default settings. Sometimes you can get 100 Mbps if your cable is bad (or old) but 300/150 Mbps seems very strange. You could check the CPU/memory utilization of the switch to make sure something isn’t slowing it down. I do know if you enable certain security features on the switch, it can be problematic. I had an issue a while ago with my TP-Link switch with enabling DoS Defend options. One of the options messed up using my old AppleTV until I disabled it.
@@homenetworkguy That I did not checked: Memory and Processor consumption. Will do! All cabling is two years old, CAT6a. And the behavior is the same in every port, including the two SFPs. And yes, I heard about Apple devices being "noisy" in the LAN trying to find other apple devices all the time. Will keep you posted on any finding. Right now I ordered a new Netgear switch to be my new main (Ultra 60 with 2.5G ports and PoE) and will get this as the backup one in case I can fix it.
Also I forgot to mention maybe check if you have devices connected to the switch are flooding the network with traffic. That would reduce overall throughput as well.
WOO HOO glad to see you jumping into the grandstream stuff !!
Yes! I like it so far. I still like trying other vendors to learn about the products and how to configure them but the Grandstream switches are powering my main “production” network right now! Haha
Thanks for your videos. I'm wiring up my home and they have been very helpful as I have no IT background. I also went with a 48 port switch for similar reasons, but went with a used brocade ICX 6450-48p. Very cheap on ebay. The GUI is... lets not talk about that. The CLI is good enough and the manual online is pretty comprehensive. I'll keep grandstream on my radar in the future. Looking forward to more videos.
You're welcome! Even though the prices are great, I typically don't purchase used enterprise hardware because they are often bulky, heavy, loud, power hungry, require command line usage or have terrible UIs, and sometimes requires enterprise licenses to unlock all features (unless you can hack/patch/disable the license checks to enable all of the features/interfaces). I'm not going to lie-- I have been enticed because of good deals on used enterprise gear, haha. I just have to keep reminding myself why I don't purchase enterprise gear.
On the other hand, I don't mind getting used server motherboards from say Supermicro, but I can put it in a large 4U chassis with relatively quiet fans so it's similar to consumer grade in that regard. That's what I did for my TrueNAS system so I could have ECC RAM, IPMI functionality, etc. For less than $200, I was able to get a decent entry level server grade system for TrueNAS: motherboard, CPU, and ECC RAM (not counting the hard drives, 4U chassis, etc that I already owned).
Nice acquisition!
Thanks!
can you please add the setup for this switch to you opnsence network series 😢 I can't figure out how to set the static IP of the switch and the gateway
Sure thing. As I mentioned in your other comment on another video, I’ll verify I have all that info in the video I recorded a while ago. If not I’ll have to record some additional screen captures.
@@homenetworkguy sounds good 😊. sorry about the double comment, I forgot I actually made the first one until I saw your response.
Hope your having a good New Year. I'm starting to get the Grand Stream AP you suggested in your OPNsense video integrated into the OPNsense VM's I'm building and I found this link that I have been watching. At my age my memory is making it difficult to remember the commands for the Cisco 3560G's I was using at my home and replaced them with SG300's because of their web interface. Unfortunately I've been very disappointed with the web interface. Now that you have had the 7806's for 10 months how happy are you with the web page interface?
I think the web interface is great on the Grandstream devices. It looks modern compared to older network switch web UIs. You can also centrally manage everything from locally hosted software or use their cloud based management.
You mentioned a future video on more detailed configuration. Any time frame on when it might be released?
Originally I was going to show the full network build part 3 video using the Grandstream switches (even recorded some video) but never edited it fully because I think I made at least one mistake (or more) since I was new to the web interface back then.
Now that I’ve been getting some extra Grandstream hardware to tinker with thanks to Grandstream for sponsoring some hardware, I will do an updated full network build guide. Not sure on the timeline, but I would like to do that within the next 2-3 months at the latest.
That would be great. The SG300 frustrates me but I think some of it is I have forgotten a lot of what I knew about configuring a switch. which hinders me figuring out the SG300. I looked through the 7806 manual and I'm about ready to sell my 300's and buy two 7806's some guy has some for sale and the price is reasonable. I'm doing some searching on the web for some videos or docs to refresh my memory on configuring switch ports. If you know of anything let me know. Are you watching football or just waiting excitedly for my next question?
Waiting excitedly for your next question. Haha jk. I try to respond to comments in between random things I’m doing around the house, etc.
Sounds like a plan. I will have some more Grandstream content soon. Also plan to show a full stack configuration with using a Grandstream router to show as an alternative to OPNsense.
home network on a gigabit 48 port switch - are you serious ???
Yes. I have 36 drops in my house. I’m using more than half of them and I’m using more than a dozen connections within my rack. I like having all of my drops in my house connected to the switch even if not all are utilized so I don’t have to swap cables around when I add new devices to the network. They weren’t super expensive and it allowed to me consolidate network switches.
@@homenetworkguy is your home a Castle?
Hey there! I got a TP-Link managed GBit switch with PoE and more recently this guy it capping the speed in every port at ~300Mbits/s down and ~150 up. At first I noticed per the internet speed but I confirmed with wired connection and iperf3.
I double checked and there no QOS enabled (speed rate etc).
Any configuration could cause this or malfunction is more probably the cause?
BTW when I connect wired to the OPNSense Protectli ports I get lighting fast speeds.
Weird, I’ve never seen a switch be oddly slow like that with the default settings. Sometimes you can get 100 Mbps if your cable is bad (or old) but 300/150 Mbps seems very strange.
You could check the CPU/memory utilization of the switch to make sure something isn’t slowing it down. I do know if you enable certain security features on the switch, it can be problematic. I had an issue a while ago with my TP-Link switch with enabling DoS Defend options. One of the options messed up using my old AppleTV until I disabled it.
@@homenetworkguy That I did not checked: Memory and Processor consumption. Will do!
All cabling is two years old, CAT6a. And the behavior is the same in every port, including the two SFPs.
And yes, I heard about Apple devices being "noisy" in the LAN trying to find other apple devices all the time.
Will keep you posted on any finding. Right now I ordered a new Netgear switch to be my new main (Ultra 60 with 2.5G ports and PoE) and will get this as the backup one in case I can fix it.
Also I forgot to mention maybe check if you have devices connected to the switch are flooding the network with traffic. That would reduce overall throughput as well.