[CyberDildonics]

I see comments like this on every announcement of fast internet and it is very narrow minded.

Working remotely, high res video conferencing, screen casting, and even booting a computer remotely over the internet are all big applications for things like this.

With a 10gb connection you could have a computer at home that would boot remotely and be part of a company's network as if you were in the office.

[vidarh]

Most people could do that with 1Gbps without any caching. If you want to run off fast remote SSDs, then yes, you may be able to exceed a 1Gbps connection. But if you're willing to pay for a suitable switch and network card for your computer, you'd be better off buying a high end SSD for your home machine.

Most office networks I've dealt with have fileservers attached that couldn't max out a 1Gbps connection at the best of days.

Of the rack fulls of servers I manage, we have a total of 2 unused 10GbE connections - this is fairly typical. Most peoples servers don't yet have more than a couple of 1Gbps connections. So trying to max out a 10GbE connection is an exercise in frustration.

Yes, there are the rare exceptional circumstance where someone could manage to make use of it, but they are just that: rare and exceptional.

Yes, there will be a time we can max it out with ease, but it's not there yet, and at the rate of adoption of 10GbE even for servers it won't be anytime soon.