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by gorbypark 1022 days ago
I can upgrade from 1Gbit to 10Gbit for only 5 euros extra per month but I don't really have anything to take advantage of it. I don't think my new MacBook Air M2 even supports 6E, and wiring the apartment would be a bit of a hassle.
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With the size of recent games and patches, 1 Gbit starts to feel a bit too low. :)

And about Macbook... In my current setup, I'm using Thunderbolt -> PCIe and one of the Mellanox cards; it gives excellent and stable 16 Gbps with stock firmware and DriverKit-based drivers (that comes with OSX), though it feels that DriverKit driver doesn't use any offloading that it supports (while running iperf between Macbook and router, it consumes roughly 3 cores entirely on Macbook, while the router doesn't even ramp up the single core to its boost frequency).

But you are right; rewiring is a hassle, though Cat5e usually works with 10Gbit over reasonable lengths (10-30 meters, maybe a bit more if it is perfect quality cable).

Also, even if I decided not to go for fibre, I'd still switch to at least 10Gbps because I'm not alone in that network :)

If you only have a few people or clients in the house, the upgrade is likely not worth it, though 10Gb would be nice to flaunt.

At that price I'd take it, but that's because I have a 10G network to my NAS, though I'd have to upgrade my router.