Thers have questioned whether the Draytek is overkill? From what I can see £800 - is that right?

Well yes it probably is overkill, but I love to always over spec things, a sense of non failure in use
Price wise I can get it for £788, I am not too worried about the price, as long its top quality/build which it is and having used Draytek for ever, I am so used used to and love the interface

As far as the SFP+ module is concerned, "JPM" has found the correct item, though I cant find it for sale anywhere yet

Have a serious look at the UI gateway in my previous post. And that will be a straight forward Cat6/RJ45

as MHC said, and i said in around about way, is this is overkill.🙈.

Yes its overkill, but as I replied to MHC, I always over spec/engineer things and I am not too worried about the cost

Yes I will be adding a 2.5Gb switch to work alongside my two 1Gb switch's in the loft

I'm using the dream machine se. It has a 2.5gb rj45 wan port (im on 2gb/2gb)and 10gb sfp+ports for wan or lan. Great bit of kit. I use an sfp to rj45 module to link it to my 10gb switch. It's a fair bit cheaper than the draytek too.

Have a look at teh UI UXG-max https://uk.store.ui.com/uk/en/pro/category/all-cloud... Under £200. It has both 2.5Gbit WAN and LAN

Looking at their website this only does "up to 1.5Gbs routing", so no good for a 1.8Gb connection
unless I am reading this wrong

The "gateway pro" seems to be more in spec

Just noticed the 3912 has two 2.5Gb ports as well. Can you not just use one of those and move to SFP+ if needed in the future?
I also like the Draytek units btw, as I've had 4 so far and I can't fault them. If an old fa*t like myself can use them, the UI is doing something right

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Just noticed the 3912 has two 2.5Gb ports as well. Can you not just use one of those and move to SFP+ if needed in the future?

Yeah that was what I was thinking as well

Like you I am an old Fa*t as well

The module Draytek list as being compatible with that router, and able to run at 2.5Gb, is this one

Cant find this one anywhere for sale

Do you think this one will work ?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/10Gtek-Transceiver-Compatib...

Rather than a random vendor I would go with one from Flexoptix if you can afford it, otherwise from fs.com

With Amazon sellers you have no idea what carp you are buying. It's like E-bay, but worse.