16-Port 10Gb Managed Switch for under $400???

10-Gigabit is expensive, especially when you need more than just a couple ports. Enter the Mikrotik CRS317-1G-16S+ switch... a 16-Port 10-Gigabit switch to run at the top of your server rack, enabling lightning fast transfers between all of your servers.

But first... What am I drinking???

From Grey Sail Brewing, courtesy of longtime fan of the channel John, it's the Captain's Daughter DDH IPA. This Mosaic single hopped beer bucks the trend of super-citrus IPAs, toning it down with a very pleasant floral bouquet. Definitely worth checking out.

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[TeamNoLackin]

You know when he is a true IT professional when he scheduled at a non production after hour maintenance to perform the cutover for his home network so he family is not effected by the plex/internet outage.

[hardleecure]

3 seconds in and I know this is going to be good. Mikrotik are such an underrated company. All the features and performance of Cisco at 1/10th the cost.

[AmitCantPlay]

Slowly but surely you're doing exactly what I wanted to do at my job, I'm the only IT person there =s Thank you for your help!

[trickyd-wcbq]

Now that Mikrotik have enabled the ASIC based L3 offloading in ROS V7 it's an extremely powerful bit of kit and will do L3 routing at 10g wire speed. You wont beat that for the price!

[maneeshparihar]

Thanks for a thorough video covering this fabulous switch and your home lab seems exciting.. kudos

[iamashyura]

Dude. I've been wanting to get that switch. Ur video will really help a lot. Thanks !!

[diezam]

Great video, thank you for taking the time to make it.

[rubenuijtde]

A lot of time went into that thumbnail illustration for sure. Nice video!

[maarts]

Just saw thumbnail and it made me click instantly. I see Mikrotik, I smash that like button. Mikrotik is a company from small European country called Latvia 🇱🇻🇱🇻🇱🇻. And it is awesome that they get more and more exposure, even Linus, the tech tippy one, has one 😍

[jas]

Awesome addition to your server rack 👍

[PopgoestheWiesle]

I've been a long supporter of Mikrotik ever since I started migrating my network equipment to them 4 years ago. It's hard to beat the price for the vast feature set you get. The only negative I will mention is that the CLI and GUI take a while to get used to. But once you figure it out, it's smooth sailing.

[steventran]

Been following your channel. Last year I started building out my ideal computer setup (Lian Li DK-05 desk with dual PC's with with EVGA FTW 3090/AMD 5950X). I needed a lab and came across your videos. Ended up getting a Netshelter CX 24U rack, Dream Machine Pro, 10G 16XG switch, 24 port POE switch and got some Supermicro 1u chassis with the D-1541 boards. Saw your videos and got some of the 1u builds you had in videos too. Also building the Chenbro NAS you made a video on for an interim NAS (I have a 45 Drives 45 drive Stornado I'll be bringing online eventually too, the Seagate Exos drives sadly doubled in price last few weeks). Now debating on getting these switches too, damn you :)

[zuexs]

Well Jeff, looks like we both have the same switch now 👀

[marksterling]

Fun fact vlan 1003 is supposed to be a reserved vlan for token ring, but it’s also the vlan to present to Apple’s Airports if you want a separate subnet for your guest WiFi.

[perdomot]

The most impressive thing in this video is Jeff reciting the complicated names of all the parts. True Nerd Cred brother. LOL

[Wrasko]

Thanks. Going to seperate the network in a house i own into 4 vlans, and looks like this might be able to help me find correct equipment. RouterOS might be something because of firewall. :).

[sagetechnology]

I think my ideal use case for one of these would be in a lan party, having 4 of the ports going to a QSFP+ nic on a lancache server via a breakout cable, with the others going to CSS326's, which would then be connected to host machines, with the CRS317's gigabit ethernet port going to a router.

[kozygeorg]

I have never tasted alkohol before, but I always find your beer review very interesting lol

[sybreeder]

I got 2 of them for work some time ago. second as cold spare. Still better value than 1 ubiquiti. Easy to setup

[benjamindewaele]

It actually does come with power cables, we use these fairly regularly and we don"t have any complaints about them :)