Much appreciated <3

Do you have a good resource for how one can go about this?

I would not recommend LocalAI. There documentation is somewhat lacking and it’s an all in one utility with many moving parts. The parts also tend to break, quite often.

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.

Fuck Nintendo and their mafia-like bully tactics.

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.

That sounds like a nightmare and tonne of work for a small and unknown company. Not to mention the low salary. It’s like that company’s HR read the latest hiring fad and decided to do it on a whim.

Are these folks sniffing their own farts?