Add 10 GbE to your system with an M.2 2280 module

Post by icelancer » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 11:14 AM UTC

walrus01 wrote: post #37

martinald wrote: post #9

It's interesting to see just how slow faster ethernet standards have been. Feels like I've had gigabit ethernet at a pretty low cost for nearly 20 years now, but faster than that has been pretty esoteric outside of the datacentre. I guess there really isn't much demand for faster than gigabit speeds even now (outside of servers?)

10GbE and 100GbE on fiber is quite cheap and easy now - but 99% of consumers and people doing ordinary stuff have no capability or interest in doing fiber. You can terminate cat5e or cat6 with $25 in hand tools... I think what's new is the prevalence now of 2.5 and 5GBaseT ethernet chips that are cheap enough companies are starting to build them into any $125+ ATX motherboard. At short lengths even old crappy cat5e h…

Post by pdimitar » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 11:21 AM UTC

ninkendo wrote: post #89

jiggawatts wrote: post #80

Some people are saying that they don't feel the need for > 1 Gbps in a home network. As a counter-point, I'm regularly limited by 1 Gbps PHY limits. During the 2 years of the pandemic I've been working from home with gigabit Internet. Why gigabit? Because that's the "speed limit" of the Ethernet PHY in the fibre broadband box, and also my laptop's ethernet port. My laptop can write to disk at multiple GB per second,…

I don’t see a use case for 10gb Ethernet in your home network in your post, unless I’m missing something? It sounds like your ISP is limited to 1gbps and all your use cases seem to be bottlenecked by it. Do you have home servers you forgot to mention that you’re uploading docker images to, and those could benefit from 10gb Ethernet? (For me, I use gigabit Ethernet everywhere at home but sometimes need to transfer lar…

Post by kevin_thibedeau » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 11:33 AM UTC

emteycz wrote: post #94

ninkendo wrote: post #89

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I don’t see a use case for 10gb Ethernet in your home network in your post, unless I’m missing something? It sounds like your ISP is limited to 1gbps and all your use cases seem to be bottlenecked by it. Do you have home servers you forgot to mention that you’re uploading docker images to, and those could benefit from 10gb Ethernet? (For me, I use gigabit Ethernet everywhere at home but sometimes need to transfer lar…

More devices used at once? If I am downloading 1 Gb/s from the internet, and meanwhile one of my housemates want to look at a movie from our NAS, the other one wants to backup 100 GB of photos to the same NAS - then 1 Gb/s home network is not enough.

Post by Gigachad » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 11:38 AM UTC

vladvasiliu wrote: post #22

vardump wrote: post #17

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Getting stuck to 1 Gbps is somewhat crazy, as even the slowest laptop and PC M.2 SSDs can do 10-20 Gbps easy. Fastest ones 50 Gbps+. But I guess most people don't transfer files in their local networks anymore and use their network purely for internet access.

> But I guess most people don't transfer files in their local networks anymore and use their network purely for internet access. I think this is clearly the case. Most new laptops don't even bother with a wired network port. I've got a new "pro" HP laptop the other day, and it only comes with some cheap Wi-Fi card. And it's not an "entry-level" laptop, and it's thick enough for an RJ-45 plug to physically fit. I also…

Post by YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 11:40 AM UTC

pdimitar wrote: post #93

ninkendo wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t see a use case for 10gb Ethernet in your home network in your post, unless I’m missing something? It sounds like your ISP is limited to 1gbps and all your use cases seem to be bottlenecked by it. Do you have home servers you forgot to mention that you’re uploading docker images to, and those could benefit from 10gb Ethernet? (For me, I use gigabit Ethernet everywhere at home but sometimes need to transfer lar…

In my case I'd like to transfer from/to my NAS where I centralize a number of data pieces. I work inside a workstation but occasionally on a laptop as well. Having 10GbE will help me when I'm on my workstation. It's not fatal, definitely, but it adds up to lost productivity.