Curious how they are planning on doing the update with home switches? I assume most home networking gear is all 1Gbps.
2.5 WAN ports are not uncommon on high end home routers and will work on older cat5e cabling just fine. I'm not sure if the Wi-Fi 6 router that comes bundled includes it or not but that would be an easy answer for the consumer.
A decent number of higher end switches have got 10gbps, and plenty of WiFi 6 devices have 2.5gbps rj45 connectors on them. Now that XGPON and NG-PON2 equipment is pretty widely available on the ISP end, we’ll probably be seeing more of this. I have to say though, I have a 1gbps fibre line to my home and I can scarcely think of a time when I’ve actually saturated it with anything other than a speedtest, and I don’t know what difference a 2gbps connection might make. A 10gbps connection with very low latency might mean that I didn’t need a laptop with a big SSD, but we’re nearly there already with 1gbps...
Had the same problem, 4x 1Gps ports and one 2.5Gbs, so i had to buy another switch and now i have Fiber to Workstation, but it's nice the cable is much easier to hide, downside sharp edges.
Have they been throttling the connection so far, or could it somehow have been a meaningful cost-speed tradeoff to use 1 gig only transceivers (at least 20 year old tech) in 2020? Or was it just not worth it to update the CPEs because customers used wifi and had <= 1 gig wired ethernet?
Transceiver cost is like gas in a sports car. Yeah, you have to buy premium, but that's not very meaningful cost in owning the sports car. Also it's *PON so the speeds aren't normal ethernet increments like 1 to 10.
>The next step in speed
Hey Google! I have already 10 Gig? For a affordable price. Can't you do that too?