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This assumes you're not also paying the cost for a bunch of copper transceivers. One benefit of 2.5G is it will work full speed through existing Cat5e cabling,
by geerlingguy 5y ago
This assumes you're not also paying the cost for a bunch of copper transceivers. One benefit of 2.5G is it will work full speed through existing Cat5e cabling, and RJ45 connections.
10G requires upgraded cabling, and lower cost 10G devices may use SFP+, but most consumer gear uses RJ45.
- Dylan16807 5y agoUpgraded cabling if you haven't gotten cat6 at some point in the last 15+ years. And as far as I understand it 10G on cat5e will work most of the time as long as you're not going super far.