![]() ![]() Companies like Aquantia are starting to aggressively push down the price point of 10 Gigabit networking, which brings us to the product we are taking a look at today - the ASUS XG-C100C 10 Gigabit Network Adapter. In fact, we've only just started to see enterprise-level 10 Gigabit NICs integrated on consumer motherboards, like the ASUS X99-E 10G WS at a staggering $650 price point. ![]() So why then are consumers mostly stuck at 1Gbps? As is the case with most enterprise technologies, the cost for 10 Gigabit equipment is still at a high premium compared to it's slower sibling. 10 Gigabit networking has been available in enterprise equipment for over 10 years, and even old news with even faster specifications like 40 and 100 Gbps interfaces available. Now that we've moved well into the era of flash-based storage technologies capable of upwards of 3 GB/s transfer speeds, and even high capacity hard drives hitting the 200 MB/s category, Gigabit networking is a frustrating bottleneck when trying to move files from PC to PC.įor the enterprise market, there has been a solution to this for a long time. In the era of hard drive-based storage as your only option, 100 MB/s seemed like a great data transfer speed for your home network - who could want more? While we've seen generational improvements on NICs from companies like Intel, and companies like Rivet trying to add their own unique spin on things with their Killer products, the basic idea has remained mostly unchanged.Īnd for its time, Gigabit networking was an amazing thing. To say that the consumer wired networking market has stagnated has been an understatement. Overview Don’t you deserve more than 1Gbps? ![]()
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