Looked down at my ThinkPad dock to plug in a USB device and saw a 10 next to it. USB.org has specs on a 10Gbps serial bus.

Time to trash the network. I’m getting a 10Gbps 24-port USB hub. :D

  • celerateEnglish
    3•2 years ago

    I’m frustrated that wired networking equipment faster than one gigabit is still expensive. My employer at the time upgraded to Gigabit equipment in 2016. Since then we have been on Gigabit. It’s sad to me that even today 2.5 Gbps network equipment is uncommon.

    • @[email protected]OPMEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      Depends on use case. 10Gbps between switches (core, distribution, and access) is fairly commonplace and cheap. Per access to the host… only new access switches have multi-Gig ports (1,2.5,5,10Gbps). Those are expensive and are reserved for wireless APs, IME, as they service more than just a host.

    • @spleneticEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      For the vast majority of users, particularly corporate users, anything over 1Gbps is unnecessary. A lot of people spend their entire working day in a web browser and/or a VDI client plus something like Teams Slack or Zoom. For those use-cases bandwidth is less important than latency and higher network speeds don’t have a huge impact on latency.

      I work at a university and we’re probably going to go to 2.5Gbps for our next network refresh in a year or two. The initial driver for that are the next-gen APs but we expect the engineering and media departments to notice the difference. The other 90+% of users will be oblivious.