| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | Well you don't have to have more than 1Gbit on a single machine just | because you have 1.5Gbit to the house. Although I guess if you don't | share with anyone, you want to use it all yourself. I am currently | pondering whether 10Gbit switches are easy to find to wire up my new | house when I move this fall. Well if I wanted to spend $10000 they are | easy to find, but that seems a tad unreasonable to me. Now if I could | buy one at cost from work... maybe I should ask. We don't need more that 1Gbit now. That might change in the lifetime of your house. But the wires are the hard part to upgrade -- switches are easy. My 5-year-old wiring is CAT 6e -- we'll see how far it can actually be pushed. I am not sure that 2.5G is enough of a step to cause me to turn everything over. I am buying 2.5Gbit things when there is little price premium. So far, that amounts to: - 1.5Gbit down FTTH from Bell [some folks get 3G, I think: oops on the 2.5Gbit step] - four 2.5Gbit ports on my recent little-PCs-that are routers (not yet deployed) And that's it. I might buy 2.5Gbit switches some day. Currently you can get 8-port dumb ones on AliExpress for US$140-ish. That isn't yet worth it to me.