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Its kind of a chicken and egg problem. I'm not aware of any consumer 2.5/5G switches, and 10Gbase-T switches are still more than 10x as expensive as 1Gb/s swit
by drewg123 9y ago
Its kind of a chicken and egg problem. I'm not aware of any consumer 2.5/5G switches, and 10Gbase-T switches are still more than 10x as expensive as 1Gb/s switches.
There's also the lack of a compelling use case. Most consumer NAS boxes are still based on spinning drives, and 1Gb/s is still a reasonable match for a spinning drive.
I've had 10GbE equipment in my house for about 12 years (I worked remotely and did drivers for one of the first 10GbE NICS), but I've never had > 1 Gb/s equipment in anything but lab equipment. Eg, not in my home desktop / NAS server, etc.
- ojbyrne 9y agoThere are some NASs with 2x1 GB ethernet connections, which suggests to me there's at least some demand.
- sethhochberg 9y agoI'd bet that's actually a part of what is restricting general demand for 1gbit+ NICs on consumer gear. How many consumer or prosumer applications actually exist where 1gbit/sec isn't sufficient, but a pair of bonded 1gbit/sec NICs still isn't enough? Link aggregation is commonly enough supported and easy enough to configure for the kind of audience who needs it that I suspect this covers much of the demand which might otherwise be served by 5gbit or 10gbit NICs natively.