Asus Releases XG-C100C 10GBASE-T NIC For $99

[bit_user]

I'm merely commenting on the fact that you jumped all over this guy for what he said, but then in your next comment, you basically agreed with him. You even provided the author with an example of what he should have said.

In my reply to HideOut, I did agree that "streaming 4k video is a bad example".

Then, I took Chris to task for inciting that comment, because it gets really annoying having to defend the utility of 10 GbE in home & office settings, every single time there's news about it. Chris knows this & acknowledged it, but I just thought I'd suggest a better way to make the case than 4k video.

Also, why don't you think 10GbE will ever come to the majority of laptops? Gigabit did, and I think 10GbE will, too.

Ethernet is disappearing from mainstream laptops and I don't see it coming back, even with 10 GbE (which also has the disadvantage of being quite hot & power-hungry). My Skylake Thinkpad 13 only has Ethernet on the docking station. So, while I could definitely see > 1 GbE on some mobile workstations & high-end gaming laptops, I think that's as far as it'll get.

Meanwhile, wifi is reaching into gigabit territory. It's not that the market doesn't want faster networking, but most people want better, faster wifi and care more about the benefits of having no wires than wifi's various downsides (some of which are also mitigated by MU-MIMO).

 

[razamatraz]

When are we going to see some 2.5 and 5 gbps stuff? It was supposed to be a boon for prewired CAT 5E or CAT 6 buildings and significantly cheaper than 10 but I have yet to see anything not built into an ASRock board...not a single switch.