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This is the ISP that I’m using, and they are insanely great, imho. I especially like that you get a static IPv6 /28 for free, something that has finally made me learn IPv6 in depth.

Still only on 1 Gb/s fiber though, because I havent found any router that is 10 or 25 Gbps that I’d really like to have at home. Are there any good consumer-grade 10 or 25 gbps routers?

Also, what is up with all computers _still_ having 1 gbps ethernet ports? It’s been the standard forever, feels like. Why arent there more computers with 10 GbE as standard?

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> I especially like that you get a static IPv6 /28 for free

Have we learned nothing...

Because 10Gbps is a lot more complicated and processing intensive, and almost nobody is in a position to take advantage of it anyway.

>static IPv6 /28 I guess you mean /48. Even as a LIR the default assignment from RIPE is a /32.

Yup, typo!

> what is up with all computers _still_ having 1 gbps ethernet ports?

See last week’s discussion on “A disquisition into the sadly slovenly takeup of 10GBASE-T” and note that the article was written TEN years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30315790

Mikrotik has some stuff but it's not much: https://mikrotik.com/product/rb5009ug_s_in#fndtn-testresults is basically it unless you want to go to the $1k cloud router: https://mikrotik.com/product/ccr2116_12g_4splus#fndtn-testre...

Not much is really out there for routing to the internet at those speeds; there's lots of stuff for 10GBe in-house, and some machines are starting to come with it (it's power hungry). The Mac mini can come with it, for example. I have a decent setup at home with some 10GBe cards in some old servers through a 4 port SPF 10GBe switch.

There is really just not much point. The most data intensive thing a normal user will run into is 4k streaming and that will work on a 100mbs cat5 fine. No server is going to push that much content to a single user so unless there is P2P it would be pretty hard to saturate that much. Every use case involving 10 GbE is specialized so there is no point adding the cost to consumer hardware...

I think it isn't too hard to get consumer-grade 2.5Gb hardware

Any recommendations? I’m currently using a Protect CLI 4 port vault running PFSense. Want to replace it with a 2.5gb or higher device but I can’t find anything.

I don't have any specific recs - I've just seen desktop motherboards with 2.5Gb/s and my boring standard AT&T fiber box has a 2.5Gb/s LAN port on it.

If you're already running a device like that Protectli then maybe you'd be comfortable building a small-form-factor PC with a 2 port 2.5Gb/s ethernet card (around $40) and running it to a 4-port 2.5Gb/s switch (around $125 for this TRENDnet one I see on Amazon). You could even install PFSense on the PC and keep your setup mostly unchanged.

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