10G to the home will be pointless as more and more people move away from Ethernet to WiFi where the noise floor for most installs prevents anyone from reaching 802.11n speeds, much less whatever alphabet soup comes later. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Tinka" <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> To: "K. Scott Helms" <kscott.helms@gmail.com> Cc: "NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 7:11:35 AM Subject: Re: Proving Gig Speed On 17/Jul/18 14:07, K. Scott Helms wrote:
That's absolutely true, but I don't see any real alternatives in some cases. I've actually built automated testing into some of the CPE we've deployed and that works pretty well for some models but other devices don't seem to be able to fill a ~500 mbps link.
So what are you going to do when 10Gbps FTTH into the home becomes the norm? Perhaps laptops and servers of the time won't even see this as a rounding error :-\... Mark.