I'm with you. I went through the same decision-making process at home and settled on running 5e as well. It just didn't make sense, cost-wise for the home usages we had in mind (mostly browsing and streaming, occasional shared printer / file usage). Even streaming 4k movies from Netflix only takes 25 Mbit. There's still a lot of headroom for 1Gbit. And by the time internet providers get around to 10 Gbit, the costs should have come down on switches and cabling due to economies of scale.
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I'm with you. I went through the same decision-making process at home and settled on running 5e as well. It just didn't make sense, cost-wise for the home usages we had in mind (mostly browsing and streaming, occasional shared printer / file usage). Even streaming 4k movies from Netflix only takes 25 Mbit. There's still a lot of headroom for 1Gbit. And by the time internet providers get around to 10 Gbit, the costs should have come down on switches and cabling due to economies of scale.