alt Hacker NewsI believe this to be a utility issue. In the average home network, having greater than a gig networking provides little value for the center of the bell curve of users.
Maybe its different outside of America but most people in America have less than 1gbps internet connections, and have little need to transfer data in-house from one location to another that the time saved by having a 5, 10, or 25gbps connection would benefit them in any measurable way.
Even for those people who run NAS systems for extra storage will only saturate gigabit connections occasionally, and being able to save a few hours a year waiting for transfers to complete is likely not worth the initial setup effort and costs for them.
I'm a bit of a techie, and my house is wired for 10gbps internally, but no isp in my area offers more than 1gbps, and I live in a well-to-do and densely populated area near to many tech companies.
So, in short, 1gbps is not obsolete. It probably should be, but it still meets the needs of the great majority of people that use it.
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At home, I have 10G only between machines that actually do transfer between each other. The rest is either 1G or Wi-Fi 7 (which in my use case is faster than 1G and cheaper than 10G)
As an American who recently moved and can now get 1/2/5Gbit XGS-PON, in a location which is borderline rural/suburban and was originally platted out 50 years ago, at the same price I was paying for shitty 400/20... I don't think our failures to invest a single cent in infrastructure or regulation over the past few decades should define the Ethernet working group's priorities.
I think about 80-90% of the UK can order >1G broadband, fairly similar in most of europe, though some countries do lag behind. Realistically the number of homes with more than 20metres of cat5 structured cabling is very very low (much less than 1%). Typical new builds might give you a CAT5 from the utility cupboard to the TV and study if you're lucky. As such for now it's fine as 10G is 'OK' and even in the case the cabling doesn't support 10G, it should at least do 5Gbase-T.
Most providers are topping out at 2.5Gbps and big part of that is that you can't actually use even that much over Wi-Fi and anything >2.5Gbe consumer side is comparatively expensive/rare and no hard wired cabling in most houses anyway. So as such most ISP routers are 2.5Gbe LAN with only a few exceptions (https://www.choose.co.uk/broadband/sky/reviews/sky-gigafast-...).