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Right?! Most affordable 10G switches are SFP+ which requires a lot more research to make sure you get the right modules and cabling.

I recently started using USB 3.2 2x2 (20Gbps) and it's orgasmic experience to what I had before

100MB/s are frustrating for a NAS. SSDs have been common for a decade, and the old spinning rust storage in my NAS is still faster than the network can handle?

That depends on where you live. I could get 10 Gbit/s WAN if I wanted to pay the subscription for that but 500 Mbit/s is enough.

Also 10 Gbit/s is mainly useful for LAN. Like connecting to a NAS.

I think 10GbE is more intended for local applications than for internet. Say, you have a NAS with a RAID array of nvme drives for video editing purposes that you want to access from a few workstations.

Even the other day I was quite happy to have 2.5GbE when I installed my new gaming PC, and steam was able to pull all my games directly from my old computer rather than downloading them over the internet again.

Anyway, LAN speeds have always been an order of magnitude higher than common internet speeds, so I don't see the issue.

Yes, this is the chicken and egg logic we have been served for the last 25 years that we have spent locked at 1 gigabit. This is because commercial players still had money left to milk to 10GBe deployments and 25 years later it it becoming obsolete in these environment. So we can have the free upgrade to 10GBe as the commercial deployments switch to 25, 40 and 100 GBe.

The thing manufacturer want to avoid collectively is product line cannibalization. And that means making sure that 10GBe was not the port you find on every random computer.

Of course, with the cloudification of general purpose computing. Most people in their homes just need a browser and streaming desktop client. So there could be other forces at play at preventing high speed LAN proliferation.

Imagine if a company could just make a 100$ nvme drive you can connect into your home router and it "just working". No cloud, no serves, no redirect. It opens the port, update IP dns client, update certificates, works everywhere.

The China article was true that they launched the service, but bullshit they are the fastest.

Plenty of other countries are running 10GB and faster services you can get to your home.

Sweden for example

Literally anyone else could have done this. They all chose not to. So fuck them.

If only they were also monsters of incrementing the pcie device id when their chip revision breaks compatibility.

So you don't spend forever trying to Google on your phone or other laptop that you have to pull and rebuild the latest kernel, without an internet connection, because only that one knows that revision K needs power management set before the link will come up.

Right up there battling broadcom for worst.

And they did it on Cat5e! I have a Cat5e “trunk” that I really don’t want to try to restring, but it’s a choke point that I’d like to upgrade from 1Ge. If only someone will build SOHO switches with it

And fucked it up by releasing the 8169 with a stepping change that added power management.

The kernel driver didn't know this, so links would silently not come up, and you wouldn't know why till you googled and learned you had to rebuild your kernel for your new motherboard.

Intel is probably still the gold standard. I'd pay a few bucks more to have something much more reliable.

E.g., NAS on my LAN, especially for streaming high res video to devices in my house.