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Every time I've looked at upgrading to anything better than 1G Ethernet I can't justify the cost for the performance. Only my NAS can come close to saturating
by giantrobot 5y ago
Every time I've looked at upgrading to anything better than 1G Ethernet I can't justify the cost for the performance. Only my NAS can come close to saturating 1G but I rarely do that. Everything else in the house is more than happy with 1G and WiFi. I can't even get my WiFi 6 AP to get higher than about 500Mbps.
Even if I wanted to upgrade it means replacing/upgrading my switch, router, and wiring in some cases. Going from Fast Ethernet to 1G was a no brainer and relatively inexpensive. For home use 10G is just too rich for my blood and won't get me much better actual network performance.
- hinkley 5y agoIn that sort of situation, a high speed switch and one high speed network card (in the NAS) would seem to be the biggest bang for the buck. Switches with one, maybe two high speed uplink ports used to be quite common, allowing every machine on the switch to get around 50% utilization of their network connection before congestion set in.
- giantrobot 5y agoMy NAS has two 1G ports that I set up as a bonded interface. So it's got 2Gb of capacity which is more than enough capacity for any other device on the network. Even upgrading to a 2.5G or 5G switch isn't going to do much for my network capacity and just cost me a bit of money.