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Even Mac minis come with a 10gig NIC. Gotta future proof, right?

• loeg 7y ago
  10G stuff still carries a substantial price premium, unfortunately. And if you've got existing Cat 5/5e cable (esp. in the wall), now you've got to replace the cable, even for short runs. I don't find 1Gbps hugely limiting myself at this time, or at least, not enough to push me to the extra spend on 2.5-5 or 10Gbit hardware. (Also, we've got 5e in the walls, no conduit, and that stuff is never getting replaced.)
  • Unklejoe 7y ago
    > Cat 5/5e cable (esp. in the wall), now you've got to replace the cable, even for short runs. Not always. I have a working 10GBASE-T link over about 50 feet of Cat 5e, going through two couplers too. No frame loss. Probably depends a lot on the quality of the cabling and the noise environment.
    • snvzz 7y ago
      And then there's NBASE-T, which takes care of situations where the cabling isn't up to scratch, scaling bandwidth accordingly.