[civiloid]

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 :)