I looked in to it and it seemed like 10gbit was much better over fiber. Ended up deciding that 2.5gbit is plenty. The 2.5 gear is significantly cheaper and runs cool.

Which dock (brand/model) did you get?

I redid everything that matters in my house/homelab with DAC cables for exactly that reason. Order of magnitude difference in watts and heat

> it's kind of upsetting how hot my Thunderbolt dock gets.

I have seen the same with just usb-c multi-port dongles for macbooks (the ones they give you at work along with the macbooks).

in fairness to the docs/dongles though, they have an incredible amount of features that would have been science-fiction twenty years ago.

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