I’m stuck with CAT5e in most of my house (can’t run new cable everywhere due to reasons). Is upgrading my switches to support 2.5Gbps worth it, or is that just a lame vendor excuse to sell me new network gear? 🙃 #Homelab #Homenetworking
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measure your current utilisation - that will answer the question for you. decent cat5e cable can easily exceed the switch port speed assuming decent termination
+1 - maybe test your Cat5e runs at 2.5gb, it may well work if they’re not too long, no excessive interference, terminated properly etc. The cable specs are worst case…
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