> radically inferior products they feed us in the consumer market
I think you need to try to a bit less hyperbolic and stop and apply logic. Out of your own social graph, how many besides yourself would be willing to pay 10-100x the price for consumer home networking than they do now? The reality is, outside a few folks like you and me in the 0.001% of consumers, there just isn’t even a want for 10+ GbE, let alone a need. Heck, probably >50% of consumers just use whatever craptastic all-in-one device their ISP gave them for their home networking. The market is just not worth it, it’s still too niche. I also don’t feel this is a chicken or egg situation either. The applicability of 40GbE networking will likely never be useful for the average consumer unless there’s a radical new technology that hits the market.
As such, if you want the gear today, stop considering yourself an average consumer and instead buy gear targeted to the audience who commonly has needs similar to yours.
I think you need to try to a bit less hyperbolic and stop and apply logic. Out of your own social graph, how many besides yourself would be willing to pay 10-100x the price for consumer home networking than they do now? The reality is, outside a few folks like you and me in the 0.001% of consumers, there just isn’t even a want for 10+ GbE, let alone a need. Heck, probably >50% of consumers just use whatever craptastic all-in-one device their ISP gave them for their home networking. The market is just not worth it, it’s still too niche. I also don’t feel this is a chicken or egg situation either. The applicability of 40GbE networking will likely never be useful for the average consumer unless there’s a radical new technology that hits the market.
As such, if you want the gear today, stop considering yourself an average consumer and instead buy gear targeted to the audience who commonly has needs similar to yours.