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I think that's a reasonable decision. Devs who need lots of networking throughput usually have their own NICs cards from a preferred vendor (with the necessary
by dist1ll 4y ago
I think that's a reasonable decision. Devs who need lots of networking throughput usually have their own NICs cards from a preferred vendor (with the necessary features) anyways.
- thfuran 4y agoI don't think a single gigabit nic is really reasonable on something as light as a raspberry pi, and this sure isn't that. Multigig has been out for years and ten gig for even longer. It's kind of ridiculous that things are still stuck on gigabit.
- leesalminen 4y agoI just specced out a new network for a friend's business (they call it an intentional community.. ~50-100 people on-site each day, most are digital nomads). They were willing to spend whatever it took to provide reliable WiFi throughout the ~20 acre property. Equipment cost was concern #4 or #5. We still went with gigabit fixtures and not 2.5G. The ISPs were only providing a 200mbps pipe (symmetrical), intra-LAN communication is not super common in this type of deployment, and no client devices currently on-property supported 2.5G. So, yeah, for us, it still made sense to go with gigabit. Even when we look out over the next 5 years (expected lifetime of this new equipment) we didn't see the need for 2.5G growing _that much_.
- macNchz 4y ago> It's kind of ridiculous that things are still stuck on gigabit. I’ve been under the impression that there are patents (expiring soon) keeping the cost of 10G hardware high enough to prevent it from becoming the default choice. I don’t have a concrete source for that info though.