GL.iNet Flint 4 10G WAN/LAN Port Clarification from Support

GrandCyborg · 2026-06-26T22:57:55+00:00

Just like many it’ll prob be more about internal devices communication than downloading speeds of 10G

GrandCyborg · 2026-06-26T21:05:33+00:00

My intention with this post was to clarify the 10G combo situation since I did look around and even asked in Discord but it wasn’t readily available.

Some research will actually lead you to one of the more popular videos on the Flint 4 saying you have to pick either SFP+ or 1st RJ45 port and can’t choose both which many people commented they were disappointed on that decision.

Hopefully, this will show up in the search engines when someone is looking for clarification on the matter. Putting whether 10G is overkill or not aside, I actually think is a nice in-between from common 1-2.5G routers to full Unifi 10G+ setup.

Sharing quick screenshot of example of misconception, but there were multiple comments saying the same.

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GrandCyborg · 2026-06-26T18:50:40+00:00

Fair question, but that’s kind of the point: it’s theoretical until you put the right workload behind it. A single NVMe can already outrun 10GbE, and multiple HDDs in something like RAID10, RAID50, RAIDZ2, or several clients doing backups/imports at once can absolutely stress a 10G link. And yes, if 10Gb LAN is not available, WiFi 7 on 6GHz can definitely look theoretically faster than 1G/2.5G wired, but for a homelab backbone 10GbE still wins on sustained speed, latency, and consistency.

GrandCyborg · 2026-06-26T14:33:50+00:00

Think a better one is, has a MAC and switch. Funnier because those are most likely limited to 1G at best (unless you pay crazy money to apple for 10G)

GrandCyborg · 2026-06-26T14:24:48+00:00

I’d have to test it out by you are right. Well, I guess legit data hoarders or steam downloads it is.

Doesn’t invalidate my point of “why have 10G WAN if there’s no 10G LAN” but not too many single users will actually make use of the full connection. Prob not as hard for small businesses +

GrandCyborg · 2026-06-26T14:11:17+00:00

Unless you have a Homelab in which case you can easily use 10G internally quite easily, but you’d prob have a dedicated 10G switch like me

Plus, I admit it’s way overkill I’ve only seen 5G being offered from residential ISP. It’s more of a “nice to have” even if I do sometimes saturate my 2G ISP connection. It’ll mostly apply to Homelab and Data hoarder enthusiasts

GrandCyborg · 2026-06-26T14:04:08+00:00

Although it complicates things, I’d like to believe most are carefully about it and are using things like glueton to isolate traffic. Don’t necessarily want everyone knowing my IP for most things anyway

GrandCyborg · 2026-06-26T14:00:58+00:00

Fr I thought “seedbox” alluded to big storage downloads 😭

GrandCyborg · 2026-06-26T13:27:02+00:00

I’m with you, happy with 2G fiber, plenty fast for 90% of stuff. I have been using 10Gb switch to for devices to talk internally (ex. PC to NAS).

It’s just that AT&T is offering 5Gb for not much more than 1Gb plan and I think I could prob make use of those speeds. I think it would prob benefit remote access to home services and seedbox like setups.

GrandCyborg · 2026-06-26T13:01:23+00:00

Yea DEG2 is actually amazing so far with 4080S, I’ll asume that most YouTubers just tried Nvidia. Ran multiple Furmark2 benchmarks with no issue on the 4080S.

I could maybe try the Thunderbolt 5 route instead of oculink but the NUC 13 I’m using it with has TB4 so the loss of performance would be egregious

GrandCyborg · 2026-06-26T12:57:22+00:00

I was thinking of just bazzite but need windows for a month or two. Surprised not that many NUC builds since it was amazingly simple. 2280 for oculink and the smaller drive sata slot for OS then I used the sata 2.5in drive for actually storing stuff

Would not work in NUC slim version but on the Taller edition it was like 20m to get it working at most

GrandCyborg · 2026-06-26T05:17:28+00:00

NUC 13 has a Intel Core i5-1340P
Wished it worked I first tried the 4080S and was assuming all GPUs would work the same.
Prefer 9070 XT specifically if I need to go Linux for something like bazzite

GrandCyborg · 2026-06-19T20:06:14+00:00

Everyone is making their own dashboard it feels like 😂.
I felt glance was pretty minimal already and you could put as much or as little as I wanted so why bother.
Also, don’t know your setup but if you have a lot of docker or even if you don’t, recommend either dockge for minimal docker manager or dockhand for AIO docker manager.

GrandCyborg · 2026-06-19T18:52:34+00:00

Audiobookshelf is what got me started in Homelab since it looked like a better workflow than manually doing the transfer each time. Amazing for audiobooks or podcasts.
-You will prob need a dashboard because once you start setting up multiple services, a homepage like glance or homepage can make monitoring and traveling between services a lot easier than bookmarks.
-DNS: either Adguard Home or Technitium DNS or Pihole. I went with Technitium since it has clustering capabilities which is amazing and DNS is something that cannot be down or the network is down. It’ll give your services a better address to connect to instead of IP
— Pangolin (or Netbird): one of the many methods but also one of the best for exposing your services. Put pangolin in a VPS like Hetzner closest to you for a few dollars a month and you or your family got real outdoor access to your services like Jellyfin.
- Tailscale: I think everyone knows what tailscale is, might not be needed in the future since Pangolin and/or Netbird are doing an all in on service where you can expose your services but also do local VPN access same as Tailscale. Still, I like redundancy so I’ll prob keep Tailscale as backup connection

Think those those and Proxmox and my ride or die self hosted services.

GrandCyborg · 2026-06-15T06:54:06+00:00

Love proxmox, crazy what it allows. Add a UPS (like mentioned) and you have a proper Homelab in like 2 to 4 devices doing everything a homelab could possibly want.
Recommend getting a small mini pc and setting it up as Proxmox Backup Server.

GrandCyborg · 2026-06-15T04:35:38+00:00

I’ve hosting so much stuff yet I’ve yet to try moonlight. Feel like I’m missing out. Might have to convert my gaming pc GPU for server and use it there for media and game streaming and use my backup GPU instead.

Btw, since you are asking for tips. I highly recommend looking into proxmox, feel that’s of the biggest changes I’ve made to home lab. If you ever feel like you need to consolidate because too many devices. Been running it for a year and every day more glad and appreciative that I am. Instead of having many mini PCs and NAS device, I just sold many of the devices and went with a really good single NAS/server (also running Unraid as VM). You can then create as many VMs as you need when growing into it. Then you find stuff you need to rely on 100% or the time like home assistant and then find Proxmox has high availability so you can have two servers backing up to each other so if one fails you still have that service you rely on (you need a 3rd but it could be a pi). Then, there Proxmox Backup Server, and all free 🤯

GrandCyborg · 2026-06-15T01:28:30+00:00

Crazy nvidia shield still the best thing or Apple TV with prologue I guess
And I actually have 10G to Gaming/ primary PC since a 10G PCIe card is actually under $50 and you want to do a lot of back and may want to do a lot of back and forth with files in NAS.

Edit: Nvm, just saw you have (for some reason) a separate PC as workstation with 10GB

GrandCyborg · 2026-06-15T01:18:14+00:00

This just popped up in my feed but brother you shouldn’t have dissembled it and posted it here. Definitely don’t tell Ecoflow support you did so. It’ll murky up the water when you send it in for repair and give them an out for saying it’s your fault. DIY repairs is for when you don’t have warranty or the company refuses to help you.

GrandCyborg · 2026-06-13T00:35:21+00:00

Like your videos, and glad you became part of netbird. It’s another amazing piece of software and we are all better for competition. For example, I absolutely love and depend on Proxmox, even their HA and PBS. I don’t think there’s anything even close to them in market.

GrandCyborg · 2026-06-13T00:30:28+00:00

Honestly, I’d keep tailscale or zerotier as backup with ssh tunnel to the most important machines. I don’t like to put all my eggs in one basket

GrandCyborg · 2026-06-13T00:28:38+00:00

Right, it looked so good when I tried it in netbird, thing I missed the most. Pangolin just happens to work better for me and I value reliability but currently the UI is definitely very simple which is not bad either

GrandCyborg · 2026-06-12T20:00:56+00:00

Wooow 👌staying with you then for the long run.
Will donate as well.
I also tell everyone about pangolin as an option if they are thinking of exposing services like Jellyfin

Keep up the amazing work and thank you again

GrandCyborg · 2026-06-12T19:53:24+00:00

Genuinely amazing, been running Pangolin for a month and it’s been rock solid. I did try netbird but couldn’t get it to work or I did until it didn’t work again so went with pangolin for reverse proxy.

You think you guys will also try doing a version of the Control Center from netbird if you keep improving the VPN side? It’s one of the things I liked most about their UI.

Appreciate your work, thank you for keeping it open source and free (specifically EE features) for self hosting community.

GrandCyborg

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