Add 10 GbE to your system with an M.2 2280 module
Some people are saying that they don&#x27;t feel the need for &gt; 1 Gbps in a home network.<p>As a counter-point, I&#x27;m regularly limited by 1 Gbps PHY limits. During the 2 years of the pandemic I&#x27;ve been working from home with gigabit Internet. Why gigabit? Because that&#x27;s the &quot;speed limit&quot; of the Ethernet PHY in the fibre broadband box, and also my laptop&#x27;s ethernet port.<p>My laptop can write to disk at multiple GB per second, or tens of gigabits.<p>I transfer large volumes of data to and from a &quot;jump box&quot; in Azure that can easily do 20 Gbps out to the Internet.<p>I regularly update multiple Docker images from scratch that are gigabytes in size, each. I then upload similarly large Docker images back to Azure.<p>Even when physically present at work, I&#x27;ll regularly pull down 50-200 GB to my laptop for some reason or another. One time I replicated an entire System Center Configuration Manager deployment (packages and all!) to Hyper-V on my laptop because the NVMe drive let me develop build task sequences 20x faster than some crappy &quot;enterprise&quot; VM on mechanical drives.<p>I have colleagues that regularly do big-data or ML queries on their mobile workstations, sometimes reading in a decent chunk of a terabyte from a petabyte sized data set.<p>All of these are still limited by Ethernet PHY bandwidths.<p>Note that servers are 100 Gbps as standard now, and 200 Gbps is around the corner.<p>The new Azure v5 servers all have 100 Gbps NICs, for example.