FYI: you should upgrade to 10gbe if your network is slow. It isn't that expensive these days: https://ben3d.ca/blog/home-network-lessons

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avtar 29 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Not sure if you've looked into this but you can ditch Bell's router with one of these:

https://store.10gtek.com/1-25g-media-converter-sfp-slot-with...

Or a non-copper equivalent in your case. You just need to use the VLAN IDs that Bell expects, see https://www.reddit.com/r/bell/s/uUltTdyqFC

	▲	bhouston 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I did end up ditching the modem since I wrote the article. I ended up using a TP-Link 8411 router though. Having everything TP-Link has its benefits for observability and maintenance.

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kube-system 20 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

That's still only 1/3rd of a single U.2 or a 6th or single U.3 drive... and the IOPS over SMB/NFS is significantly lower than a local drive, even with a big ethernet pipe.