Originally Posted by
mixture
The "average house" doesn't need one-gigabit now ..... so I think your "nearly ten years" for 10g is a little optimistic.
I don't know: if you copy big files between computers on a regular basis, 100Mbit is nowhere near fast enough these days. I've been buying games online recently and then downloading the installers to my MythTV box which I use as my home server; installing a 2GB game from there onto my games PC over a 100Mbit ethernet is painfully slow.
Also, the price difference between 100Mb and gigabit is small these days so there's little reason to not buy the faster hardware even if you don't think you'll use it yet.