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Originally Posted by csnarpy
A couple of things: cat5e will work to 10G under 40ft. Also, the Telus 3Gig plan comes with an NAH which will already have a sfp inserted. You would just need to bridge the NAH to the 10G port and then plug into that port.
Anything you want to know about Telus fibre, just let me know, been installing it for the last 3 years.
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Technically you're correct, and in a datacenter environment Cat 5e is fine. But in household wiring with long runs, all kinds of possible interference, and unknown termination quality I don't think you'd ever see 10Gb speeds. Maybe 2.5 if you're lucky
My main point is that anything over 1Gbps for residential service is mostly marketing from the ISP, it's not worth spending extra money on network gear for it IMO. Very few endpoints would ever take advantage of it in a home, and even if they do the user will likely never even notice. And I have Telus 3Gb myself, simply because it was cheaper than their 1Gb with a promo they had