Published May 5, 2026, 10:00 AM EDT His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer. Tinkering with his own build at age 10 turned into building PCs for friends and family, fostering a passion that would ultimately take shape as a career path.  Besides being the first call for tech support for those close to him, Ty is a computer science student, with his focus being cloud computing and networking. He also competed in semi-pro Counter-Strike for 8 years, making him intimately familiar with everything to do with peripherals. The modest unmanaged switch is something we've all leaned heavily on at one point or another. Your home lab grows to the point where you need more ports , so you grab a cheap unmanaged unit that will fill the gap for now. It's probably gigabit and connects the devices you need, and for some people, they'll never outgrow it, but for others, it silently becomes a very real bottleneck.…