but home Internet is still stuck at Gigabit speeds… and only in some cases are they maybe letting you go to 2 Gb. Wasn’t there that post floating around lemmy a while ago about how China can potentially give everyone like 5Gb for home or something? Can’t find it now but swore it was here…
Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year
Submitted 10 months ago by exu@feditown.com to technology@lemmy.world
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thatradomguy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
poopkins@lemmy.world 10 months ago
10 Gb connections are widely available in Europe for very reasonable prices.
SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 10 months ago
I think 10GbE is more intended for local applications than for internet. Say, you have a NAS with a RAID array of nvme drives for video editing purposes that you want to access from a few workstations.
Even the other day I was quite happy to have 2.5GbE when I installed my new gaming PC, and steam was able to pull all my games directly from my old computer rather than downloading them over the internet again.
Anyway, LAN speeds have always been an order of magnitude higher than common internet speeds, so I don’t see the issue.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Yes, this is the chicken and egg logic we have been served for the last 25 years that we have spent locked at 1 gigabit. This is because commercial players still had money left to milk to 10GBe deployments and 25 years later it it becoming obsolete in these environment. So we can have the free upgrade to 10GBe as the commercial deployments switch to 25, 40 and 100 GBe.
The thing manufacturer want to avoid collectively is product line cannibalization. And that means making sure that 10GBe was not the port you find on every random computer.
Of course, with the cloudification of general purpose computing. Most people in their homes just need a browser and streaming desktop client. So there could be other forces at play at preventing high speed LAN proliferation.
Imagine if a company could just make a 100$ nvme drive you can connect into your home router and it “just working”. No cloud, no serves, no redirect. It opens the port, update IP dns client, update certificates, works everywhere.
50MYT@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The China article was true that they launched the service, but bullshit they are the fastest.
Plenty of other countries are running 10GB and faster services you can get to your home.
Sweden for example
espentan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Same in Norway, many providers have been offering 10Gb for a while now.
mlg@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ATT Fiber offers 5G for residential, though I’ve seen people posting speedtests of 10G speeds which I’m not sure how they got because it was on the DIY fiber ONT discord lol
lud@lemm.ee 10 months ago
That depends on where you live. I could get 10 Gbit/s WAN if I wanted to pay the subscription for that but 500 Mbit/s is enough.
Also 10 Gbit/s is mainly useful for LAN. Like connecting to a NAS.
Routhinator@startrek.website 10 months ago
Yeah, Im excited about the cards but getting a 1GB switch with a 10g uplink was expensive… 10g switches are… a lot.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t disagree with that. There is almost no benefit to having residential Internet go beyond even 2Gb. Most people don’t realize that or are not shown why and so immediately figure that a bigger number means better experience. I use a 10Mb LAN connection to my Giagabit router at home and the only time I really suffer is when downloading huge files but I end up doing so in the background anyway…
MangioneDontMiss@lemm.ee 10 months ago
as if more than .005% of computer users will actually be able to see any difference whatsoever.
Mio@feddit.nu 10 months ago
I am just wondering if it would be better to go straight to fiber instead of ethernet as most have fiber to the home anyway. That should help with future speed upgrades beyond 10Gbit as well.
Fiber is also more power efficient? Why not?
Tilgare@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t think “most” have fiber to the home, first of all. Cable companies in the US do multigig speeds via fiber to a relay and coax cable to the home. Fiber is great when it’s underground or in a data center and safe, but it is delicate and easy to break the cables so not a great home solution. Fiber terminations are difficult and more expensive. The power efficiency payoff on a 1m cable from your router to your pc is probably going to be measured decades, more if you factor in the higher cost of the cable.
Trollception@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My fiber is also directly to the box on the side of the house. There inside is a modem with an Ethernet port that connects to the panel in the garage. Every home in our county has fiber like this afaik
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 10 months ago
I have fiber directly into my house. My PC is on the opposite end from the modem. This comment is a load of baloney
Valmond@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You need more than10Gb/s at home? I mean we all know the 640Kb meme but I’m curious here :-)
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I frequently transfer data over the LAN at a higher rate than my internet connection.
Kinda wish it was easier to test the connection speed between devices tbh, unless someone knows a good way of doing it but many devices are so locked down I am not sure how you would.
exu@feditown.com 10 months ago
An SFP+ single mode module alone costs ~20€ at least. Add to that a PCIe extension card and you’re way over the cost of copper.
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Add to that, that most homes have multiple devices that you want connected. So you need a fiber switch as well. 150usd will get you a mikrotik crs305, with 4 sfp+ ports. And you’ll probably want a router, but perhaps you can offload that to your ISP, kinda like routing on a stick.
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 10 months ago
About damn time. We got a boost every few years from 10 to 100 to 1000. Then we just… Stopped. Stagnated. It’s understandable why, for a good long time one gigabit was all anybody needed, 100 MByte/sec is pretty good even for a NAS.
Of course then fiber ISPs got in the game, now in a lot of places you can buy 7-8gbps as a consumer product. And even multi-gig, which was supposed to ‘fix’ this, really ended up being insufficient. You could make a salad argument that multi gig was a waste of time and we should have just started moving to 10 gig.
Unfortunately, 10 gig switches still carry a significant premium. But this will start to shake that up. Sooner the better.
ftbd@feddit.org 10 months ago
100MB/s are frustrating for a NAS. SSDs have been common for a decade, and the old spinning rust storage in my NAS is still faster than the network can handle?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Even HDDs can max a 100mbit connection.
voodooattack@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ahhh. First world problems are always a great read
Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My 25 mbps isp speeds make me sad.
demunted@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Realtek are monsters of semiconductor creation.
Destroyed
- sound card industry
- network card industry
What’s next?
InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 10 months ago
If only they were also monsters of incrementing the pcie device id when their chip revision breaks compatibility.
So you don’t spend forever trying to Google on your phone or other laptop that you have to pull and rebuild the latest kernel, without an internet connection, because only that one knows that revision K needs power management set before the link will come up.
demunted@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Ohh I don’t think they make superior products they just destroy entire sections of the semiconductor industry through brute force. I think creative Labs and turtle Beach made superior sound dsp’s. I think Intel still reigns supreme in Ethernet chips.
piecat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Rtlsdr too
JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Oh please do printer interface.
biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Right up there battling broadcom for worst.
muusemuuse@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Literally anyone else could have done this. They all chose not to. So fuck them.
Tilgare@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think they’re making a bit of a joke here. It’s just progress.
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Excellent!
Now if we can only teach realtek how pci device id’s work, so they don’t use revision id’s to control power management, and links silently don’t come up if your kernel driver doesn’t support it properly.
I know this was a decade ago, but yeah, I’m still pretty damn pissed.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
It’s impressive that they got the power consumption down to less than 2 watts. I think this is the first 10GBASE-T NIC I’ve seen that doesn’t have a heatsink on it.
AA5B@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And they did it on Cat5e! I have a Cat5e “trunk” that I really don’t want to try to restring, but it’s a choke point that I’d like to upgrade from 1Ge. If only someone will build SOHO switches with it
exu@feditown.com 10 months ago
Cat 5e has 8 wires just like any later standard. There’s nothing stopping you from trying a faster speed on it.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
At least it’s not Marvell. But, man, can we pay another 17c and get … I guess not Broadcom as they’re waxing seriously dinkish, but who else?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Intel is probably still the gold standard. I’d pay a few bucks more to have something much more reliable.
who@feddit.org 10 months ago
Intel is probably still the gold standard.
I guess you’re not familiar with the i225-v and its variants.
Jesus_666@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ever since the BE200 debacle I don’t know if I can trust Intel to deliver. Sure, the stuff that’s already out there works but who knows if any of their future stuff will?
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Wasn’t it Realtek who made 1GbE popular as well by making the cheap 8111 IC over two decades ago?
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And fucked it up by releasing the 8169 with a stepping change that added power management.
The kernel driver didn’t know this, so links would silently not come up, and you wouldn’t know why till you googled and learned you had to rebuild your kernel for your new motherboard.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
To make use of a 10Gb network, wouldn’t I also need all of my equipment in between things to support 10Gb? Where am I supposed to get a 10Gb modem for residential use?
frezik@midwest.social 10 months ago
Last part that I need is for SSDs to come down in price to where ~80TB isn’t too ridiculous (that’s 40TB usable space with RAID1). Cut the price per TB in half two more times to make it there. Otherwise, spinning platters are the bottleneck with my 10Gb network.
Which probably would have happened in the next few years if not for tariffs.
Cort@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Even without tariffs, the collusion between nand manufacturers to keep prices high meant 2030 would be the earliest that 8tb SSDs would be “affordable”
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Where am I supposed to get a 10Gb modem for residential use?
There are a few routers that have SFP+ slots so you can modulate to any laser signal your provider might require.
- FRITZ!Box 5690 Pro
- Zyxel AX7501
- TP-Link Deco BE85
Otherwise if you’re looking for strictly only a modem there are various available. They are usually simply called fiber to ethernet converter. Startek, Delock, Trendnet, FS
If you meant a switch, well 10G switches are abundant. Zyxel, Netgear, TP-Link all the usual suspects.
Cort@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Even with the sfp+ ports some providers make not using their provided modem a real headache. (Looking at att)
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
modem
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 10 months 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.
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
3Gbps fiber is readily available in a lot of places. And some of us have internal networks with network attached storage and various servers running locally.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I have a NAS and servers as well. Do you have a router separate from your modem that these pass through?
notfromhere@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
I use 10GbE for my internal network for my Ceph cluster. I’ve come about 80% of theoretical maximum for brief spikes from my NVMe drives rebalancing (mostly HDDs, few SSDs, couple NVMes).
anachrohack@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Serious question: What do you use a 10GbE adapter for? Are there ISPs which offer 10gigabit bandwidth? I suppose it would be useful on a LAN
kalleboo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
- I do have 10 Gbps, I pay $35/mo here in Japan (not even a big city like Tokyo, this is a depopulating, rural capitol)
- More importantly, even my 5 year old, 4-bay spinning rust Synology NAS can saturate 2.5 Gbps copying files. With soldered storage in modern machines, faster networking is cheaper than replacing my whole machine
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, imagine a network backup system that could actually back up your 20 TB media center in a few hours rather than a few days.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Bro, tell that my German table first.
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Old meme is old. I’m sitting in Central Wyoming with reasonably priced 2Gb/s fiber and I could order 10Gb/s if I wanted it.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Example of an ISP providing 10Gb/s in Portugal here and at 15 euros a month it’s pretty cheap too.
That same ISP is from Romania and is also in Spain though curiously in this latter thri Net Only 10Gb/s costs €25 per month,
Personally I don’t see the point of it form myself at home, but for a small business I can see it making sense.
PHLAK@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I connect my primary and backup servers on 10G directly via a crossover cable for transferring ZFS snapshots. No actual 10G switches or anything at the moment but if I add any more servers I need to back up I’ll probably get a small 10G switch to put in between.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Realtek, don’t they have issues with drivers in FreeBSD? Or am I horribly out of date.
st3ph3n@midwest.social 10 months ago
Can we finally get some affordable 10GbE switches too?
exu@feditown.com 10 months ago
Great to (maybe) see 10GbE coming and the initial price sounds reasonable compared to currently avaipable 2.5G and 5G Realtek adapters.
Apparently Linux 6.16 will have the driver included.
www.phoronix.com/…/Linux-6.16-Realtek-RTL8127ARealtek itself has demonstrated its RTL8127 NIC working with an unknown switch using cheap CAT5E cables, and the company’s representatives at the booth emphasised this fact. However, we do not know which switch or router the company used. Yet, most 10GbE routers and switches are designed for CAT6 cabling.
Funny update about the cabling they used during the demo. There’s really no reason Cat 5e couldn’t work for short enough distances with little interference. It’s more about the guaranteed minimum distance you can get, 55m with Cat 6 and the full 100m for any rating beyond that.
paige@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
This is going to be a huge help for home video editors.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 10 months ago
I recently started using USB 3.2 2x2 (20Gbps) and it’s orgasmic experience to what I had before