Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year
yaroto98@lemmy.org 4 weeks agoDACs are great, agreed. However try telling that to the guy next door. The reason ethernet got to be so popular was because of how familiar it was and similar it us to telephone wire. There were several other competing standards befofe ethernet won.
10GbE cards and switches help regular folk upgrade without needing to learn about DACs.