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I’m in lockdown I was bored there’s no harm in looking into these things.
Indeed there’s not. That’s a nice design on them what you linked though.
I’m in lockdown I was bored there’s no harm in looking into these things.
I never said it would improve my gaming experience you’re putting words into my mouth, I only mentioned my games pc as if I had a laptop it wouldn’t support 10 Gbps with the built in network chipset. With my games PC I could plug in a 10 Gbps PCI-e card.
I wouldn’t mind plugging my games PC with a 10 Gbps network card into it over CAT 6 Ethernet giving me 10 Gbps over the 10 Gbps WAN port out to the Internet.
Indeed there’s not. That’s a nice design on them what you linked though.
Yeah the DKT Comega 10 Gbps WAN Gateway looks nice...
https://dktcomega.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/10G-CPE-2.png
Not many of the mainstream router makers have 10 Gbps WAN products out as far as I can see. This one doesn’t support WiFi and there’s a lot of home users who don’t know any better and would miss the WiFi.
The UniFi Dream Machine Pro and the Mikrotik RB4011 both support 10Gb WAN. Actually I think there are quite a few routers out at the moment with SFP+ WAN ports.
Not quite mainstream names like ASUS, TP-Link and Netgear. I’d only heard of UniFi and Mikrotik after viewing these forums. Overclockers only sell ASUS, TP-Link and Ubiquiti
Perhaps look at who makes the UDM As stated
And for your laptop, get one with USB C or Thunderbolt 3 connectivity. I've got a macBook Pro with a QNAP 10GbE LAN card connected via Thurnderbolt 3. I think it was about £170+VAT. And I can transfer files from the network storage at full line speed. Still no better for gaming though.
The NVme drive in my "games" PC can read 2816 MB/s and write 2481 MB/s sequentially.
https://i.imgur.com/jkZJfXw.png
I stand corrected, no bottleneck if using an NVme for 10GBe!
I could be wrong, and I may well be, and I’m 99.9% certain that all Apple MacBook Pro’s since about 2017 have been fitted with NVME SSDs.
Can you do anything else meaningful with your computer whilst its transferring at full speed? Been a while since I tried but even 1Gbps makes an SSD and CPU go crazy on a laptop (albeit not tried on a recent MBP that has quite a fast SSD in it)! Full speed 10GbE would be able to transfer 1.2 Gigabytes per second, can you write to consumer grade SSDs (at the laptop/desktop end) at that speed, without some sort of RAID.
As stated, 10Gb is not at a consumer stage yet
Indeed it’s not, especially when a 10 Gbps PCI-e network card costs £ 78.74 ex VAT. Then you have to figure in the cost of a new 10 Gbps ONT, a new 10 Gbps Gateway plus on site visit and installation costs.
There’s not much choice of gateways at the moment and the one I linked to above doesn’t support WiFi therefore it’s not aimed at the consumer. The so called big boys ASUS, TP-Link and Netgear don’t appear to have any 10 Gbps products out yet.
When it eventually does become available it will be in 10/5/2.5/1Gbps increments with 1 Gbps the bog standard. That will push down the price of 1 Gbps connections.
I might be missing something. I was under the impression that Asus and Netgear had 10GbE products out
I stand corrected you are obviously a router enthusiast and know a lot more about what is on the market than I do.
The ASUS GT-AX11000 ROG Rapture is £ 316.66 ex VAT. The NETGEAR XR700-100EUS Nighthawk Pro Gaming is £ 387.70 ex VAT and the TP-Link AX11000 Tri-Band Wi-Fi 6 Gaming Router Archer is £ 342.48 ex VAT
None of which are cheap. I paid just £ 66.66 ex VAT for my current Netgear R6800 AC 1900 router.