It advertises that it's faster, not that it's more reliable. A reasonable customer might extend their experience with other objects and conclude the faster mode

It advertises that it's faster, not that it's more reliable. A reasonable customer might extend their experience with other objects and conclude the faster mode is less reliable. A F1 car destroys its tires in hours, while wheels on a commuter car last for years, an overclocked processor is less stable than one at stock frequency, supersonic jet fighters kill their passengers at a rate thousands of times higher than subsonic commercial airflight, etc. Understanding that ethernet is entirely different from wifi requires... domain expertise! The exact thing a Best Buy customer won't have. >5000mb wired capacity A suspicious man might note that switching capacity isn't stated on that page, is not mentioned at all in the manual, and is the exact thing a manufacturer would be tempted to cut corners on, since vanishingly few customers will attempt multiple simultaneous network transfers in a home LAN. A normal consumer would never notice a switch capacity higher than 1 gigabit.