Comment on Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years
Eheran@lemmy.world 9 months agoAnd what use case is there for a wired connection like this? Next to nobody needs that. I, engineer/gamer/PC enthusiasts/bla, know zero people who ran wires to their PC like I did, despite certain advantages with LAN in gaming. You can imagine how many people I know that not only run the wires but then also actually need more than the standard 1Gb/s.
It is/would be a waste of resources and not needed for almost everyone. That is what I am saying. That is why we do not see any significant development in the last 20 years, it is still the same 1 Gb/s like back then.
WanderingCat@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I’ve ran cat 6a in my home as when I’m sure to upgrade the devices I don’t want to have to redo all the cabling. I am looking at moving up from 1 Gb/s already as I can easily max out the connection when transferring data over the network, like a backup to a different system.
Hell, I’m pretty sure we have ISPs here in EU thag offer 2Gb WAN.
In terms of significant developments, more and more PCs are currently making the move to 2.5gb networking too
Eheran@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Maxing out 1 Gb/s was no issue with HDDs 15 years ago. Maxing out 10 Gb/s is no issue with SSDs today. 1 GB/s is nothing for them. You would need 100 GB/s to have a buffer for the next 3(?) years, then it will be maxed out again.
In any case, a backup can take 1 or 10 hours, seems irrelevant in a non-commercial environment. Since people will be backing up to large HDDs in the foreseeable future, 1 Gb/s is just fine. 18 TB HDDs could potentially be 2x faster, say 200 MB/s. Not much to gain.
WanderingCat@lemm.ee 9 months ago
The whole 1gb is fine sounds like the old “nobody will need more than 64k of ram” is all
Eheran@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It has been almost 25 years and it is still perfectly fine for almost everyone. By the time it will not be good enough anymore, those “almost everyone” are not going to run cable anywhere. Wireless has long replaced wired connections for the vast majority of people. If anything, it will have to be based on USB-C.
And while RAM went up and up and up back then, 16 GB have been standard for 10 years now. The development is at a point with diminishing returns.