Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agomodem
You don’t need 10GbE WAN to make use of it on your LAN. If you have a lot of internal traffic (self hosting, for example), you really just need an internal router and some switches to support it. It’s more convenient to have your modem be your main router, but that’d not necessary.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I think that these just aren’t for me. I’ve considered upgrading my gear to 2.5Gb from 1Gb, but it just doesn’t feel worth it to me. Maybe in ten years when everything’s cheaper and more accessible.
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If everything is constrained by your internet connection, it’s probably not worth it.
This will help within your home network, such as with a file server or vm host, large video files. Not everyone fits those use cases
I don’t fit those use cases either, but I want to
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I do, but honestly anything past gigabit is overkill currently. My fileserver currently works over WiFi, and 100-200mbps is still plenty fot 1 UHD stream. Faster is always better, but 2.5gbps would already be overkill for what I need, so the extra cost of 10gbps isn’t needed.
That said, it’s feasible to get a 10gbps LAN today. Regular cat6 should be totally fine, and it’s pretty inexpensive.