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I upgraded my entire home network to 10GBase-T earlier this year, and I get 10Gbps speeds everywhere, but I run Linux everywhere, except for a few Windows VMs, which also get 10Gbps. I think the TLDR for this article comes down to "Windows networking sucks", which everybody should already know anyway.

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Windows networking doesn't suck that much. Microsoft does do some good things with networking (they originated receive side scaling, which is really useful for high volume servers), this is just bad defaults and poor feedback.

Other OSes also suffer from bad defaults and poor feedback, so whatcha gonna do.

10-gbase-t sucks, massive power draw, massive heat generation. Use fibre.

You'll still run into issues with USB connections and ensuring you have a high speed through them as not all usb connectors and dongles will run reliably at 10g bidirectional.

I agree 100%, but my relatively new house already had Cat6 everywhere, and I did not think it was worthwhile to start tearing up walls. Also, lots of the connected goodies use PoE++ which you cannot do over fiber.

(I'm aware of some instances where the light in the fiber has been used to power local electronics, but AFAIK there's no standard for this, and it's probably not an economical solution for me.)

> I think the TLDR for this article comes down to "Windows networking sucks", which everybody should already know anyway.

You can even safely remove the word "networking" from that sentence.

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