Getting a wired connection above 1 Gbps seems non-trivial -- there are products that do 2.5 Gbps, and other products that do 10 Gbps. It seems like you'd have to pick one or the other and hope the rest of the world standardizes on the same speed as you.
> there are products that do 2.5 Gbps, and other products that do 10 Gbps
And 5, 25, 40, 50, 100, 200, 400 Gbps.
> seems like you'd have to pick one or the other and hope the rest of the world standardizes on the same speed as you
Huh? A connection between A & B will just be as fast as the slowest link between them, be it 400 Gbps or 6 Mbps, regardless of the various other speeds. And a 10GBASE-T NIC will happily autonegotiate with a 10BASE-T NIC and everything in-between.
Maybe, not sure. I can’t immediately find anything that would specify as such, but I suppose adapters could opt to not support some modes (and I guess technically I may have been overreaching a bit on that bit anyway since autonegotiation is only mandatory at all in 1000BASE-T and later).
