My new apartment network

I am so glad that I am able to share my story here, hopefully this became a memorable journey into the Alta Labs family.

In 2 months time, I will be moving into my new apartment which is about 850 square feet in size, it’s a 3 bedder, out of which I will be using the bedroom 2 as my work and play room (man cave in short) LOL.

Most of the fast internet will be consumed by myself so a wired internet is a must, the rest of the family members just require an ordinary WIFI connectivity for mobile, laptops and what not, we survived in current 1Gbps fiber network plus 802.11ac mesh router provided by Telco (Askey 5100).

I will be getting the 10Gbps XGPON in the new site since it cost about the same and the “bragging rights” that came along :), due to the layout and placement of the equipment (picture below), more dedicated hardware is preferred. Traditional WIFI router or Mesh is out of my consideration, UDM pro SE is expensive and overkill, UCG max is only 2.5Gbps , Eero 7 is expensive too and for some reason, my heart telling me I don’t want that.

Fortunately late of last year AL rolled out the Route 10 just in time and it was exactly what I needed with the combination of 10Gbps SFP+, 2.5Gbps RJ45 and Poe+ all in one, coupled with the AP6 (unfortunately I can’t wait for AP7), we seems to have a clear winner here :sweat_smile:

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Next is to solve the connectivity and cabling requirement, all the bedrooms are already Cat6A cabling and patched into the DB where the ISP ONT is, the Route 10 will be plug and play here. However due to curiosity, I will be laying a pair of LC OM3 fiber to my workstation(red color line), hence some testing will be required, some of the items are still pending delivery, so I shall update again when there is new development :slight_smile:

As for the AP6, I have not decided to desk mount near to my PC or Ceiling mount it infront of the DB :slight_smile: I guess it depends on the outcome on my heatsink testing LOL

These are all from AliExpress btw :slight_smile:

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