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Getting a wired connection above 1 Gbps seems non-trivial -- there are products that do 2.5 Gbps, and other products that do 10 Gbps. It seems like you'd have t
by cbhl 6y ago
Getting a wired connection above 1 Gbps seems non-trivial -- there are products that do 2.5 Gbps, and other products that do 10 Gbps. It seems like you'd have to pick one or the other and hope the rest of the world standardizes on the same speed as you.
- zymhan 6y ago10GbE is a standard. It's expensive for home users, but it's very much the standard for faster-than-gigabit ethernet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Gigabit_Ethernet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Gigabit_Ethernet
- amarshall 6y ago> there are products that do 2.5 Gbps, and other products that do 10 Gbps And 5, 25, 40, 50, 100, 200, 400 Gbps. > seems like you'd have to pick one or the other and hope the rest of the world standardizes on the same speed as you Huh? A connection between A & B will just be as fast as the slowest link between them, be it 400 Gbps or 6 Mbps, regardless of the various other speeds. And a 10GBASE-T NIC will happily autonegotiate with a 10BASE-T NIC and everything in-between.
- jeffbee 6y agoNot that I imagine it causes problems in practice, but as a point of order I think 10G copper PHYs cannot negotiate below 100BASE-TX.
- amarshall 6y agoMaybe, not sure. I can’t immediately find anything that would specify as such, but I suppose adapters could opt to not support some modes (and I guess technically I may have been overreaching a bit on that bit anyway since autonegotiation is only mandatory at all in 1000BASE-T and later).
- pantalaimon 6y agosome 10G-BASE-T cards don't support the 2.5G and 5G modes as those got standardized later.
- flemhans 6y agoSome even don't support 100 Mbit. But most do. :D
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