Anyone using 10GbE at home?

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Just wondering.

Just wired up the house with some Cat6 for 1GbE and am loving the increase in performance having been tethered by powerline which although infinitely better than wifi, could not punch through the old electrics in the house.

Just interested if anyone has a 10GbE network at home.

Thanks.
 
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It's very expensive.

Since when in the glorious hobby of I.T has price ever been an issue when you have £200 "gaming" keyboards :p

The last LAN I had was 100Mbps so having 1GbE has blew my mind.

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You are right though, 10GbE is expensive but I would love to have a crack :D

Still blows my mind that 10GbE is a "thing" over copper and taking that into account, the price is not that bad (when compared to fiber) :D

whats the benefit of using 10GBE when your on a commercial ISP like virgin? sorry I'm not very clued up on networking.

As bledd as already said, such a nework is more for internal data transfers, streaming high quality audio/video etc. Switching to 1GbE has enabled ALL the computers to max out the external internet connection (Obviously not at the same time, but you know what I mean).

I have been playing around with game install folders being hosted on a central SSD "server" with multiple clients accessing them and so far, it works, even on 1GbE, would love to know how it fare on 10GbE. I also want to look into HDMI over ethernet too. Feeding terrestrial TV signal around the house. For all of that, bandwidth can soon be eaten away if multiple clients are in use.

If you are running for example 4 PC's in a single room, unless you have originally fed that room with 4 dedicated connections, those 4 will be sharing a 1GbE connection.

A single or 2 10GbE connections can be fed to a single switch making things much tidier. More the merrier though.
 
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