Yeah, I was sort-of aware. I can never remember the supposed length limitations on copper at various categories, though.
I have 2.5GBe built in to a few things, like the NAS, but not 5GBe. If I'm going to upgrade it at all, I'll go straight to 10, not 5. As for Saracen Manor, it's not so much East and West wings, more a case of front of house, bottom floor, to back of house, top floor, via a service duct that provides a built-in access route but mandates a fairly long cable run. At the moment, the cable modem and router and on first floor (Euro definition, not US) so cabling has to go down one, along a bit, up three, along a bit more, down another one, to get there. A mental guesstimate gives me something like 30m cable run, point to point. But moving the modem and router down one, then running one cable back to original location, and another up through the house, will shorten the run but might need another switch (or a bigger one). That run right up and through is what
might justify the fibre bit. Though I suspect not.
Do I need 10GBe? Nope.
Do I kinda want it?
But more pragmaticaaly, I need to do a more accurate 'site survey' (i.e. measure up exact run routes), and cost it up both ways. My suspicion is that if I'm going to have to get that long run done, it might just be worth doing it right, and doing it once.
Oh, and it's a blend (at the moment) of wired copper and WiFi 5 and 6 (moving towards 6). A couple of machines would benefit from much faster wired speeds, or I could just use a wired backbone between Mesh nodes on wifi. That said, I'm sorely tempted to get some basic managed switches and break my stuff down into some basic VLANs for security reasons. Still thinking about how far to go.
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