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its not supposed to give you always a perfect result, then it wouldnt be much of a tester.

if a NIC configuration causes issues then I would expect a good tester to show those issues.

I see these sort of posts time and time again, the tbb tester gets complaints also as its apparently broken due to showing issues other testers dont (due to its single threaded tests).

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Finally get a symmetric connection, shame the d/l is only 2% of what I am paying for...

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Nice. Is that CPE connected over USB or are they actually handing out 10GBASE-T gear?

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10Gb.

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I assume it's a SMB product and not a consumer service then?

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It's $300 a month. SME or loaded home user.

Be ideal for a house share full of nerds, though.

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Without a doubt. Especially for Offensive Security.

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Even in a house full of nerds, I'd be surprised to find a 10GbE switched network. And my house is pretty high up there when it comes to the nerdiness of the nerds.

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That said, a GbE switch with 10Gb uplink wouldn't be quite as far-fetched, though you wouldn't be able to wave the e-peen with 2Gb+ speed tests without some bonding.

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$300 is pretty cheap though for 2Gb symmetric. You'd be hard pressed to even get a 300Mbps service (via BT FTTPoD) here for that much, heck you could find yourself paying $100+ for an 80Mb service.

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2.5Gb should be knocking around in numbers in the not too distant, both as an uplink for other GigE ports and no doubt as access ports with 10GbE uplink. Broadcom 1GbE/2.5GbE SoC. Marvell 1/2.5/5/10/40GbE

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Why bother with 2.5G? We already have the technology for 10G over ethernet, why not just focus on bringing the price of that down?

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Same reason they bother with 40GbE while we already have the technology for 100GbE

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I refer you to this presentation from Greg Hankins at Alcatel-Lucent delivered yesterday.

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Incremental upgrades are more profitable for the hardware companies. So the answer is capitalism.

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An 8 port gigabit switch is £20. An 8 port 10Gb switch is £600. A gigabit NIC from a recognised brand is £6. The cheapest, unknown brand 10Gb NIC I could find is £200. The answer is price versus performance making sense.

The sweet spot is about 3-4 times the price for 10 times the bandwidth. Right now 10GBase-T isn't even close at 30x.

As the presentation indicates there are genuine use cases in offices and, in time, homes, for 2.5Gb and 5Gb. The idea that it's because incremental upgrades are more profitable seems strange given it's not incremental, 10Gb has already been released, it's just too expensive for the applications that may use it.

EDIT: I glossed entirely over something else quite obvious, too. The vast majority of cabling is Cat 5. 10Gbase-T doesn't run so well on most Cat 5, so something that will allow upgraded bandwidth without requiring changing out of all cables in offices is very desirable.

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That was a really interesting link and I read it all, but I'm still a little unconvinced. Their mean reasoning for 2.5G and 5G to exist is that wireless speeds have surpassed gigabit - and it's a worthy point. However, on the same slide they state this, they show that wireless speeds are going to go beyond 5Gbit in less than 2 years and faster still in 3 years.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2015/09/11.png

It still seems like a bit of a pointless stop-gap between 10GbE? Then again, the cabling aspect is a worthy one and it's certainly better to be able to negotiate to 5Gbit if 10Gbit isn't possible on that particular cable. I suppose that's the real difference, having something inbetween for when your cabling isn't good enough. Still, it'd be nice if this just meant that devices started shipping with 10GbE capable ports that could just negotiate down, rather than trickling devices that do 2.5GbE and 5GbE.