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Ah consumer networking, stuck in the single gigabit speeds, 1 GigE was introduced decades ago in the last millenium.. I wonder if this is a permanent plateau in
by fulafel 5y ago
Ah consumer networking, stuck in the single gigabit speeds, 1 GigE was introduced decades ago in the last millenium.. I wonder if this is a permanent plateau in human development or if there will be some bump when we get modern 100+G ethernet that servers are currently using.
Meanwhile there are notable recent perf speedups in the modern ethernet too: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git/commit/?id=f35f821935d8df76f9c92e2431a225bdff938169 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-n...
- Tepix 5y agoCan you do wired >1GBit/s with low power consumption?
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- tehbeard 5y agoI've typically seen most 10gig kit to need a lot of cooling (either heatsinks or active fans), not something I'd be too happy about dealing with. Also there's like only the homelab enthusiast that needs 10gig. The rest of user can potter along fine on 1/2.5gig as we're not slinging ZFS snapshots about the place. Tl;Dr 1/2.5gig works for consumers needs, 10gig is not price competitive for our needs.
- fulafel 5y agoBandwidth stopped growing for consumer stuff when everyone moved to slow and flaky wireless. If it was available, there would be apps to use it.
- stevenhuang 5y agoBandwidth stopped growing because needs were met. > If it was available, there would be apps to use it. To an extent, since the inverse is also true: there is as of yet no market demand for such large amounts of bandwidth either. Once popular apps/usecases with heavy bandwidth requirements see wide adoption (at first limited to specialty high bandwidth networks), we will start seeing growth in the consumer bandwidth space.