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10G is awesome for (1) downloading steam games - many are +50GB these days, (2) downloading Ollama models, (3) downloading ISOs, (4) downloading app/OS updates and (5) I have a NAS also on the 10G network for media backups.

I have symmetric 3Gbps fibre to the home via Bell Canada and it reports 4.5Gbps via fast.com.

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I’ve got Virgin cable and can pull 6Gb a minute from fast.com. Your hypothetical 50Gb steam game would take a whole 9 minutes assuming steam can saturate my connection. So that’s like enough time to hit start download , make a brew and come back to the pc. Why bother.

If I get this new job I'm definitely upgrading everything to 10G.

My PCIe5 SSD can do 14 GB/s, or about 112 gbit/sec.

Did some research. 10gbe cards are about $30, 100gbe qsfp28 cards are about $300, 100gbit 100m transciever about $100.

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