On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 02:54:37AM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
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.
CAT 5e can handle 10GbaseT for runs up to 30m as far as I remember.
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]
Rogers offers 2.5Gbit fiber in some places.
- four 2.5Gbit ports on my recent little-PCs-that are routers (not yet deployed)
Yeah I am considering picking up one of those.
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.
-- Len Sorensen