How does that work when even 10Gbps ethernet is still cost-prohibitive for SOHO applications and "real" 1Gbps+ Wi-Fi just doesn't happen in thick-walled european houses...
Lots of data center hardware getting sold in masses on eBay.
And copper cables these days also can do 10gbit, but even fiber at home you can get the Transceivers for about 15€ each, and a switch for another 200€used, some old PC as Router with cheap 10gbit card also works wonders
I've been looking at making a NAS box and it would cost less than 200 Euros for decent hardware (better than some QNAP, including a 10Gbps fiber adapter and Wifi) and a completely custom aluminum case.
That is is why we buy new kit instead of used. I could spend 2-3 hours of my time scanning eBay and Craigslist and comparing spreadsheets of compatible equipement and then waiting for USPS mail deliveries (at my $200/hr consulting rate) or I could spent 5-10 minutes on Ubiquiti's online store and be done with it.
It's ugly and I dislike it (the thrill of the chase...). But that's capitalism. Frankly I won't be able to "enjoy" this again until I'm after retirement...
But in that case you're not complaining about the cost of hardware, I think.
I was commenting more on people who think it's too expensive but still want new.
Since we're on topic, having been born in the land of no opportunities, I've learned to save on everything.
And I've learned to build/make anything, quite literally. It's not that hard and it's really satisfying, but sadly time consuming.
Its an amount of bandwidth that’s difficult to fill but that’ll change.
I assure you that your customer profile is not representative of the vast majority of your ISP's customers.
The top tier is almost always a tiny minority [1] of any ISP's customers but it's convenient marketing and usually has by far the highest margins. It's like arguing Bugatti buyers aren't the majority of Volkswagen Auto Group's customers: it's true but what difference does that make?
1: Virgin Media offers tiers from 100Mbps to 1Gbps but "The average speed across our U.K. broadband base continues to increase and was 186 Mbps at the end of Q1", https://www.libertyglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Fix...
Actually, you raise a good point of discussion: But I'll argue that UK residential ISPs touting their highest-tiers as "proof" they're being competitive, even though only a tiny minority of punters shell out for it, as being self-serving and ultimately against the national interest.
With Bugatti: people are buying an asset. You're paying for the quality of the engineering workmanship that goes into the final product - but once you've given your $1-3m over to Herbert Diess you're no-longer an ongoing concern to them, beyond the dealer's servicing fees - and your investment in a single vehicle means little to the road and highways infrastructure where you live - even if your jurisdiction implements vehicle-value-based property tax and road-usage-tax it won't mean much at the end-of-the-day - but with residential broadband it's something else...
That is old news in 2021.
Do you know about <<MikroTik 5-Port Desktop Switch, 1 Gigabit Ethernet Port, 4 SFP+ 10Gbps Ports (CRS305-1G-4S+IN)>>?
Amazon sells it for 140 USD.
It is legendary on home networking discussion boards. (They have a nice 8 port version also.)
(Granted, since last year I've been a convert to Ubiquiti gear, but that wasn't a valid option when I was a teenager living with my parents, trying to convince my dad on good tech to buy within a reasonable budget)
https://www.englishforum.ch/tv-internet-telephone/304268-ini...