[NekkoDroid]

> Fiber is cheap enough too if you want some 10Gb devices.

The problem with Fiber for now will remain that so few consumer devices can actually connect to it without first converting to RJ45. You are p much limited to some enthusiast networking gear and server gear and everything else needs you to convert.

I recently had my families home ethernet situation upgraded and we went with Cat8 for now (it wasn't meaningfully more expensive to doing any other Cat cable all things considered). It is compatibile with networking stuff that is commonly available today and hopefully in the future some switch will appear to make full use of it (I am slightly sceptical, but I assume 10G will at least still be seen over Cat for consumers).

[ragall]

Cat8 is very rigid and hard to work with. For my house backbone I used multi-mode fiber (OM4) cables which are much easier to work with and support up to 100 Gbps for 150m (https://www.fs.com/blog/om4-multimode-fiber-faq-highspeed-co...).

[matt-p]

Cat5e/Cat6 is extremely easy to work with and does 10G at 30 metres. I take the view that's enough for me on any one link.

[matt-p]

I'm not sure if we'll see >10G over twisted pair/CAT but I'm sure we'll definitely see 5G and 10G baseT become far cheaper with 2.5G the baseline (e.g standard on cheap things like raspberry pi).

Base level Mac studio is already 10G as standard and it's only $100 extra on a mac mini.

Long time until 10G per device isn't enough at home.

[NekkoDroid]

I also doubt above 10G will be seen at least on consumer grade hardware, but until we start seeing SFP+ or similar on consumer hardware (and not just enthusiast and server hardware) there is a realistic chance. But that is so far out in the future making predictions on it doesn't make sense.