OUR EXPERT
Neil Mohr won’t spend a penny on anything new and fangled – his children rarely visit.
Ethernet is 50 years old. We ran a feature wondering why it E hadn’t died off back in LXF310, and the simple answer is that it just gets faster. Most home users have been pootling around with Gigabit since the early 2000s, things for consumers are not really any faster 24 years on. In data centres, 40GbE and 100GbE are common, with even 200/400GbE being experimented with.
Here in the home office, uploads may top 20Mbp/s and downloading at 108Mbp/s over fibre, moving PDF files around, remote desktoping, SSHing to servers, and accessing the odd networked VM locally. It tends to be things that Gigabit is fine for, but
