Hello everyone. I have a small homelab (1 NAS, 1 Server and an Opensense Box) and I am perfectly happy with the Microtic 10G switch I use to connect these together. However, we organize a LAN party once a year with around 40 People present and for the past years one of the organizers always provided some old enterprise network gear. Unfortunately he can not make it this year and so I got chosen to provide the network setup this year. I work in IT but rarely with Networking gear, appart from some minor VLAN setup stuff and such, so I am not really well knowledged in Network-Hardware. I have a budget of about 200€ for a few switches, cables are available, so I thought about perhaps buying something I can use in my homelab later on as well. I have some experience with Cisco switches, at least with their commandline and I have one HP 2510G-48 and 2510G-24 already, but those don’t have a 10G uplink option.

TLDR: What is a good, cheap 24/48 port switch with SFP+ 10G as an option for at least one or two uplink ports