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Curious how they are planning on doing the update with home switches? I assume most home networking gear is all 1Gbps.
by nodesocket 6y ago
Curious how they are planning on doing the update with home switches? I assume most home networking gear is all 1Gbps.
- zamadatix 6y ago2.5 WAN ports are not uncommon on high end home routers and will work on older cat5e cabling just fine. I'm not sure if the Wi-Fi 6 router that comes bundled includes it or not but that would be an easy answer for the consumer.
- noodlesUK 6y agoA decent number of higher end switches have got 10gbps, and plenty of WiFi 6 devices have 2.5gbps rj45 connectors on them. Now that XGPON and NG-PON2 equipment is pretty widely available on the ISP end, we’ll probably be seeing more of this. I have to say though, I have a 1gbps fibre line to my home and I can scarcely think of a time when I’ve actually saturated it with anything other than a speedtest, and I don’t know what difference a 2gbps connection might make. A 10gbps connection with very low latency might mean that I didn’t need a laptop with a big SSD, but we’re nearly there already with 1gbps...
- nix23 6y agoHad the same problem, 4x 1Gps ports and one 2.5Gbs, so i had to buy another switch and now i have Fiber to Workstation, but it's nice the cable is much easier to hide, downside sharp edges.