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it also means your home network is slower.

Why should a backup from my laptop to my file server be limited to 1gbps? Has nothing to do with outside connection. Tehre are a lot of use cases for faster home networking irrelevant of network speed to the external world

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Sure, but it's just a single port LAN router. If you have a 10G switch it's going to have a MAC table and let your laptop talk directly to your file server over Ethernet.

Otherwise the wireless throughput is nowhere near gigabit so you would be limited by that anyway.

You're assuming flat subnet without VLANS. If you bother doing backups, segmenting them off is a pretty standard security practice.

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