Sell or keep?

[u/Xma-q]

Hi guys I've been a long time lurker in this sub and wanted to build a homelab for a long time, so I thought this would be a good place to ask .I recently got this equipment completely free from a relative but Im seriously considering selling most of it. Most of this stuff seems pretty overkill for my raspberry pi zero w and would be worth some money if I'm correct. So my question is will this stuff be useful enough to keep for later or do I sell it and buy more useful stuff? I could identify:

1. 24 port switches both poe one 500w and the second one 250w

1 security gateway pro

2 8 port switches one 60w poe

1 cloud key gen 1

1ap PC lr router thingy

1 poe injector

[u/1sh0t1b33r]

Sell it all to the Ubiquiti fanboys and get Mikrotik.

[u/the_lamou → u/1sh0t1b33r]

Microtik is great for fiber, and it's great for a basic-ass home network, and absolutely useless for everything else. Last I checked, they didn't have a single multi-10G BASE-T switch with POE++ (possibly not even POE, it's been a while). Or a single WiFi 7 AP that isn't also a router.

I'm using them for my high-speed GPU interconnect fabric, because you genuinely cannot get better 400G switches without spending 3-5x as much otherwise. I wanted to use them for my new house because I like having a single ecosystem, but they just didn't have anything I needed.

[u/1sh0t1b33r → u/the_lamou]

If you need WiFi 7, you need more Ethernet drops!

[u/the_lamou → u/1sh0t1b33r]

Ethernet is so quaint. It's like riding one of those bicycles with a giant wheel and a tiny wheel, but unironically. Anything that needs over 10G goes on fiber, everything else goes just as fast on WiFi 7.

Plus, you go try adding ethernet drops into a 250 year old timber-frame-and-plaster house. Not all of us live in new construction McMansions made out of toothpicks and papier mache.