I 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). Th

I 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_.