Recent content by revjim23

Yeah, you are correct for a consumer setup. If a consumer goes that far it's probably for bragging rights. There's a reasonable use case here for small business.... let's say an office of video editors where they are sharing company video assets.

You are the first person I've met that thinks 2.5 (or 5) is the way of the future. I'll add a reminder to my calendar to check this thread in 5 years to see how things turned out. ;) There is an additional use for 2.5GbE motherboards that a lot of people don't consider... Suppose you are...

In 2004 10G SFP switches were $3000-4000 per port (link). In 2012 switch prices per port were down to $350 for twisted pair (link). And now TP-Link is selling the TL-SX105 for around $50 per port. Premium? I dunno, but I call it reasonably affordable. Ripping walls for a 5 port desktop switch...

The spec for 10GbE over twisted pair copper was published in 2006 (802.3an) and the early adopter premium has been paid for 15 years. We're now entering the cheap phase where the prices come down. I'm not talking about an "office fleet" that requires ripping tons of wiring. That isn't the...

I see the "mass market driving the price down" as the opposite... 10GbE seems like the obvious value path to go, especially as motherboards proliferate with 10GbE built-in and switches get cheaper. I suspect in the future 10GbE will be just as much of a commodity at 1GbE today. The market for a...

Yep all of that is understood and agreed. There is a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem here where if you have older wiring that can't handle 10GbE you might want to do something midway and go with 2.5 or 5GbE. But for a small amount more (the prices are coming down quite a bit now on 10GbE...

This must be a joke. 3 weeks ago TP-LINK released far better 10GbE switches for the rest of the world (Anton even wrote about them here). So the rest of the world can get a 5-port, fanless, 10GbE switch. All five ports are RJ-45, twisted pair, 10GbE for somewhere around £200 GBP. Why does the...