Your brand-new wifi router is obsolete (NBASE-T, 2.5/5Gbit spec approved)

[VirtualLarry]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10720/nbaset-receives-boost-with-ieee-p8023bz-approval

Well, OK, maybe it's not obsolete overnight. But it will take a while for 2.5/5Gbit ports to work their way into NAS units and high-end consumer routers. Until then, I guess, you'll have to buy some switches that support the new standard, and plug your LAN into those, and then plug that switch into a 1Gbit port on your router. (Much like I had to do with my Gigabit LAN, and my Asus RT-N12/D1 router, that only had 10/100 FE ports on it. It was workable, because my internet speeds were under 100Mbit.)

Edit: OTOH, my 1Gigabit NAS units don't even saturate the wired LAN as-is.

 

[XavierMace]

The switch referenced in the article is $1,400 for an 8 port switch. Then you still need adapters that support that. I can get surplus 10GbE or 40Gb QDR Infiniband setups for a fraction of that. I don't see this making much headway anytime soon at those prices.

 

[ylin0811]

The article states: NBASE-T has become popular because it can act as an effective wired backhaul for 802.11ac wireless access points. With theoretical speeds exceeding 1 Gbps, the time and environment are right for technology that can replace the existing 1 Gbps network ports

This is laughable at best. The switch itself is probably only useful for jumbo frame transfers. Right now there is a lot of talk on how much "speed"' 802.11ac can offer in relation to the wired interface, but people need to realize that 80mhz/160mhz has only a very limited non dfs channels. For one, 80mhz has two non dfs channels (this is worse than legacy 802.11b/g channels in 2.4ghz), while 160mhz has only 1 non-overlapping channel that requires dfs.

The problem with dfs is not just the radar part, but false positives from devices in the 5ghz spectrum that will cause the access point to falsely trigger the dfs mechanism based on its predefined algorithm.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Edit: OTOH, my 1Gigabit NAS units don't even saturate the wired LAN as-is.

Well, what's wrong with your NAS?

 

[mxnerd]

People with stay with 1Gbps or jump to 10Gbps networks. Don't think anyone will buy these 2.5G/5G stuff.

 

[PliotronX]

The main draw is that we are looking at 2.5Gb at 100m over cat5e and 5Gb at 100m over cat6. No cat7 or $30 connectors or 42m limitation (cat6). Using existing wire, eventually switches and nics will be affordable and will supplant GbE just as GbE did for FE. Hopefully the numbers draw users into it because unlike wifi, the bandwidth numbers are real.

 

[VirtualLarry]

unlike wifi, the bandwidth numbers are real.

LOL. True dat! Wired networking FTW!

 

[master_shake_]

yawn....

Spoiler: :D