Funnily enough, the Onexfly F1 Pro just went up for sale too. The newer “AI HX” chips are expensive because where top end sku for Onexfly costs $1399.

I suspect that Ayaneo 3 will also have similar pricing.

I am pretty sure 2.5GBe will work over normal/standard CAT5 and Cat5e cable. It’s the upstream switch that you’ll need to replace.

Quick shout out to yt-dlp. It comes everything you need to download, transcode, and even use Sponsorblock!

I personally would stick to *sense. I personally used OPNSense there’s a huge community backing, well documented, and actively maintained. I like to use the CLI, but using the Web GUI was a breeze and I mainly wanted to set it and forget it.

There are a few 5x 2.5g N100 for $120-130 USD range on AliExpress. I grabbed one a while back for my own network.