Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years
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Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years
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Re: Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years
#2I remember wiring up cat5 gigabit about 20 years ago in an industrial workplace. My house of that age also has cat5 everywhere and it’s aged very well. 1gig is still the standard for wired with few but expensive 2.5g and very expensive 10g home and small business options.
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#3I like that it talks about coaxial cable. In case anyone is curious, like I was, twisted-pair cabling is used in practice because it's much cheaper and easier to work with than coax.
Re: Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years
#4I remember wiring up cat5 gigabit about 20 years ago in an industrial workplace. My house of that age also has cat5 everywhere and it’s aged very well. 1gig is still the standard for wired with few but expensive 2.5g and very expensive 10g home and small business options.
It's not so gloomy, 2.5G ports are becoming standard on consumer desktop chipsets, and switches are not that expensive. For 10G, you can get copper cables easily, but SPFE is more common, I guess once chipsets get faster, do not consume as much/run as hot, copper might return there as well.
Re: Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years
#5I remember wiring up cat5 gigabit about 20 years ago in an industrial workplace. My house of that age also has cat5 everywhere and it’s aged very well. 1gig is still the standard for wired with few but expensive 2.5g and very expensive 10g home and small business options.
Even now 1gbps is plenty for virtually every end user and I suspect it will be good enough for a long time (maybe VR changes things??).
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#6I really loved the "no bullshit" approach that Ethernet authors took, as described in the "Where Wizards Stay Up Late".
Re: Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years
#7I remember wiring up cat5 gigabit about 20 years ago in an industrial workplace. My house of that age also has cat5 everywhere and it’s aged very well. 1gig is still the standard for wired with few but expensive 2.5g and very expensive 10g home and small business options.
> 1gig is still the standard for wired
A lot of people already get more than that from their ISP. I had at least 2.5g on every consumer product from the past 5 years. Small businesses use at least SFP on the floor level. Yada yada yada. Point is it's probably a regional thing.
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#8It still kills me that this name was used for a wired, rather than a wireless setup.
Re: Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years
#9I remember wiring up cat5 gigabit about 20 years ago in an industrial workplace. My house of that age also has cat5 everywhere and it’s aged very well. 1gig is still the standard for wired with few but expensive 2.5g and very expensive 10g home and small business options.
> 1gig is still the standard for wired A lot of people already get more than that from their ISP. I had at least 2.5g on every consumer product from the past 5 years. Small businesses use at least SFP on the floor level. Yada yada yada. Point is it's probably a regional thing.
Nah, you're in a very small minority. Most households have few hundred megs at most
Re: Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years
#10It still kills me that this name was used for a wired, rather than a wireless setup.
I think about this every single time I read or hear the word ether. "It means an invisible transfer medium. What were they thinking!?"