My backpack is a bit of a black hole. I used to get pulled up due to carrying my grandfathers pocket knife all the time.

Then as things got worse, these days its screwdrivers, wrenches etc.

Seems like soon even my ethernet cables are going to be taken from me.

>It's wild to me that 10gbit isn't the norm by now and tech people who should know better seem to think WiFi matches or even exceeds even 1gbit ethernet.

2 things here. Upthread is the discussion about the old 10GBE modules that would constantly turn off due to overheating. Thats left a sour taste in a lot of peoples mouths.

I dont have anything in my home network that matters enough to have 10GBE anywhere. If I did, I would just get fibre. My wireless is fine for most purposes except some HD streaming, and plain old 1 gig works fine there.

I used to support a company that refused to run fibre, and had just run ethernet everywhere with the old 10GBE modules. Half their links were constantly flapping as the hardware powered off to cool down.

Even with the new modules, their ethernet cable runs were always in excess of what 10GBE could handle. I remember one at ~140 meters that was constantly renegotiating.

The worst part is, they had not a single element in their network that didnt support fibre. The fibre sfp modules for their radios was the same cost as the copper.

I love that these 10GBE modules exist but please (please please) just run fibre if you can.

10Gbase-T is here to stay because you can deliver POE over it to wifi APs.

Oh totally, heck I pitched the concept of a 10GBE Passive POE switch the other day.

That said, IIRC a lot of people running fibre + power.

Thats the issue with those AGR reactors the brits have IIRC, perfect (or close enough) safety record, super complex and not economical to run.

How about the idea that one day you might be paying a subscription to use a service while non sequitur.

>99% surely

I was being polite LMAO

>We need a truly distributed point-to-point internet asap.

Yes.

A mesh network isnt point to point. Its a mesh.

So a mesh isn't made up of point to point connections? I'm pretty sure if you have several they start to look like a mesh (and every security site's banner)

Sure but I cant communicate with you in a point to point fashion, in a mesh network I am hoping that I have possibly hundreds of disinterested nodes between us. But like, are those nodes coordinating on censorship? Are some of the nodes recording your metadata? Are the nodes incentivized to carry the quantity of traffic you require?

Really the "fix" the ultimate goal has to be direct point to point.

The real internet is made of point to point connections. Doesn't mean anything.

Really? I see the whole "Yes the entire body of work, across multiple schools of economic thought, and every examination of the history demonstrates rent controls dont work. But we think this time, perhaps they will work"

to "Once again rent controls have failed" pipeline has been pretty firmly established.