The 1gigabit standard should have gone away a long time ago. It is sad that router companies are not making consumer level routers with at least 4, 10 gigabit ethernet ports. The WAN port can remain gigabit to save cost, but 10 gigabit LAN is a must.My cheap NAS system is already maxing out the gigabit connection for both reads and writes, with a low CPU usage. To match the max speed of my drives in the array, I would need 4 gigabits. 10 gigabits will offer a good amount of headroom for future expansion.PS teaming is useless. I have tried it, and it only works if both systems use teaming and if the transfer is broken into multiple parts for multiple simultaneous connections.Sadly networking companies are still price gouging on 10 gigabit hardware. Seriously, $1546 for a 12 port 10 gigabit switch... 10 giabit switches should be in the $100 price range, and not this price gouging crap.