My M1 Mac Mini only supports 1Gbit. My Synology NAS only has 1Gbit ports, and while I do have the 10Gbit interface card for it, using that prevents you from usi

My M1 Mac Mini only supports 1Gbit. My Synology NAS only has 1Gbit ports, and while I do have the 10Gbit interface card for it, using that prevents you from using NVMe cache, and with SATA, even a good SSD will have trouble saturating SATA due to the exact reasons NVMe exists. My phone is too old for Wifi 6, My surface laptop 4 has Wifi 6, but no thunderbolt port; just a single USB 3.1 port. Technically enough for 10 GbE, assuming you didn’t need absolutely anything else on that port. Then you need 10Gbit network equipment. A 10Gbit switch with more than 8 ports is going to be expensive and consume a pretty ridiculous amount of energy. It would be difficult to argue that there is any truly “consumer grade” 10GbE equipment; almost all of it comes in sizes designed to fit in racks… Wifi 6 APs exist, but my AP-HD isn’t, because it wasn’t purchased that long ago, still works, and I have had no good reason to replace it. Not to mention the actual speeds I get on WiFi are never even close to the theoretical speeds, making it seem unlikely it could even saturate my 1GbE setup in practice. Although I do have some 10GbE equipment, even directly connecting devices together I have found that many of my devices, of which many are consumer-grade, already bottleneck elsewhere and can’t even come close to saturation. So as of today, 10GbE does not seem to be a huge win for most users, even if they do own some equipment that can do it.