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My ISP provided router and a couple cheap (15€) switches (the Ethernet cables were integrated in the walls at the construction of the house).

Why a home network would need more (apart from 10 GB Ethernet but it get expensive really quick)?



Why a computer would need more than 640 kb of RAM and 10 Mbps 10BaseT Ethernet?

In my case my home network is part of the building network (4 apartments), my main server is in the basement (for noise and cooling reasons) and ~ 10 people in the building are using the network, making 1 Gbps sometimes too slow. My secondary server is in my apartment, so the sync between the 2 servers and the migration of VMs are constrained by the network performance, 10 Gbps would be a lot better, more than that ... not now, but in the future when 25 Gbps will become the baseline, I will use it.




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