> I wouldn't say it was exactly left behind, because the average consumer will not really benefit from anything over 1Gbit. 1Gbit is already enough to saturate

> I wouldn't say it was exactly left behind, because the average consumer will not really benefit from anything over 1Gbit. 1Gbit is already enough to saturate most consumer harddrives. That hasn't been true for a long time. Even one single spinning rust hard drive made in the last decade can do sequential reads at ~120-150MiB/sec, which is easily enough to saturate a 1 Gbit/s link. SSDs have way, way higher throughput for sequential read and write. Good SSDs will also beat that number handily for random read/writes. And of course, any machine with more than 1 hard drive can easily saturate a 1Gbit/s network. I also find it surprising that wired networking has been 'stuck' on 1Gbit/s for decades.