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Will 10Gb ethernet ever become consumer gear? - mattkime - 09-25-2019
Cat 6a cabling is reasonably priced but the network cards and switches are priced to require justification.
Re: Will 10Gb ethernet ever become consumer gear? - Filliam H. Muffman - 09-25-2019
I remember when 10BaseT cards were over $200 each. :oldfogey:
Re: Will 10Gb ethernet ever become consumer gear? - 3d - 09-25-2019
Doesn't really matter if you're too cheap to pay for the monthly service anyway.
Re: Will 10Gb ethernet ever become consumer gear? - mattkime - 09-25-2019
3d wrote:
Doesn't really matter if you're too cheap to pay for the monthly service anyway.
Its a good point. Most home networks are concerned with facilitating external communication, not internal communication.
Re: Will 10Gb ethernet ever become consumer gear? - Paul F. - 09-25-2019
When we can get 10Gig internet service without selling our souls, 10Gig hardware will plummet in price and become very common.
Right now, in my part of California, one is lucky to be able to get an honest 40mbps throughput regardless of service provider.
I get 60mbps down on a 1Gb fiber connection at work... shared among 550 devices.
Re: Will 10Gb ethernet ever become consumer gear? - GGD - 09-25-2019
Go with the 6a wire, that gives you the options in the future.
Apple will never make a laptop with an Ethernet jack again, although some USB-C docks might be the way laptops will get it in the future.
The area where I think we will first start seeing it is on WiFi access points. 802.11ac speeds are already above 1gbit/sec, so there's currently no way to get wired data into the access point as fast as the WiFi connection. This will mainly be for connections between devices in your home LAN, but over time WAN speeds may exceed 1gbit/sec and the connection between the modem and home LAN will need the speed too.
In my home environment, LAN speed does matter, backups are done over the LAN to drives connected to a computer dedicated as a "home server". So even if the WAN Internet speed is low, the faster LAN speed is what matters to me.
Re: Will 10Gb ethernet ever become consumer gear? - mikebw - 09-25-2019
I not too sure consumers will ever need that much. The reason being that processing power is great enough now to allow ever higher forms of compression that reduce the bandwidth necessary to transmit even very high bit rate original video material. PLUS, with 5G being so hot that could potentially obviate the need for any wires.
Personally I would run 6a and then if the hardware ever comes down to consumers you are ready.
Re: Will 10Gb ethernet ever become consumer gear? - testcase - 09-25-2019
I’ll believe 5G speeds after successful WIDESPREAD deployment.
Maybe then we'll see 10Gb ethernet speeds....... :boink:
Re: Will 10Gb ethernet ever become consumer gear? - jdc - 09-25-2019
If I *never* plug a CatAnything wire into another device it will be too soon.
Especially on a consumer level.
Re: Will 10Gb ethernet ever become consumer gear? - cbelt3 - 09-25-2019
Phone wire.... Obsolete...
Coax .. NOT Obsolete because Cable TV companies...
Fiber ... most people hate it because expense and termination complexity. Really good for super fast networks. (*)
Cat5... generally good enough for gigabit
Cat6... really good for gigabit.
Wifi... keeps getting faster and faster.
(*) FWIW I heard from my sister that Fermilab is swapping out their fiber data lines with "copper" (Probably Cat 7). My company still has a fiber backbone on our campus, AND a dark fiber link to a plant about 20 miles away, and to our offsite backup provider about 150 miles away for disaster recovery.