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Yeup, and they don't realize that 10Gbit Ethernet is over 10 years old now either... It seems such things dont make it to the consumer market unless the enterprise sector starts upgrading to the next big thing (what is it now, 40Gbit for cable and 200-400Gbit for fiber?), thus flooding the used markets with gear.
I remember 2006-2008 being the start of 1Gbit LAN for consumers as devices finally started hitting an affordable price point and most motherboards finally had 1Gbit built in.
We will probably see the same with 10Gbit over the next 2-3 years (enthusiast boards have it, and you can get a NIC rather "cheap" now), and in another 15ish years we might start seeing what we see now, it being cheaper to put a 10Gbit NIC into something than something that caps at 1Gbit.
I remember 2006-2008 being the start of 1Gbit LAN for consumers as devices finally started hitting an affordable price point and most motherboards finally had 1Gbit built in.
We will probably see the same with 10Gbit over the next 2-3 years (enthusiast boards have it, and you can get a NIC rather "cheap" now), and in another 15ish years we might start seeing what we see now, it being cheaper to put a 10Gbit NIC into something than something that caps at 1Gbit.