| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk <[email protected]>

| Well you don't have to have more than 1Gbit on a single machine just
| because you have 1.5Gbit to the house.  Although I guess if you don't
| share with anyone, you want to use it all yourself.  I am currently
| pondering whether 10Gbit switches are easy to find to wire up my new
| house when I move this fall.  Well if I wanted to spend $10000 they are
| easy to find, but that seems a tad unreasonable to me.  Now if I could
| buy one at cost from work... maybe I should ask.

We don't need more that 1Gbit now.  That might change in the lifetime
of your house.  But the wires are the hard part to upgrade -- switches
are easy.  My 5-year-old wiring is CAT 6e -- we'll see how far it can
actually be pushed.

I am not sure that 2.5G is enough of a step to cause me to turn
everything over.  I am buying 2.5Gbit things when there is little
price premium.  So far, that amounts to:

- 1.5Gbit down FTTH from Bell [some folks get 3G, I think: oops on the
  2.5Gbit step]

- four 2.5Gbit ports on my recent little-PCs-that are routers (not yet
  deployed)

And that's it.

I might buy 2.5Gbit switches some day.  Currently you can get 8-port dumb
ones on AliExpress for US$140-ish.  That isn't yet worth it to me.
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