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Originally Posted by xvi
Don't forget that SATA only recently did 6Gbps to a maximum of one meter. You're asking an Ethernet line to do 10Gbps. To the maximum of 100 meters. For cheap.
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10Gb has around for 10 years now. It's time to start trickling down
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With both wired and wireless, the rated speed isn't so much for cramming maximum speed from computer X to computer Y, it's to provide a higher available bandwidth for all users on a network. The only reason why you should want 10Gbps on a router is if it's providing a link to a switch with a whole heck of a lot of 1Gbps clients. How often are people going to use that on a residential all-in-one router like this?
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The reason to want 10Gb is that we've been hitting that ~100-115MB/s wall for years now. Can't* increase with link aggregation and Infiniband is a solution for only a few. That leaves moving to 10Gb Ethernet.
It's not like we think 10Gb will become the new 1Gb overnight. It certainly didn't happen overnight when 1Gb became the new 100Mb. All it takes is a couple vendors to start offering entry-level adapters and switches/routers to take off. Like I said earlier, prices are at $156/port. It's not too much of a stretch to believe that some of the lower-tier network vendors could offer entry-level equipment at $100/port.