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[Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?



On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 11:38:36 -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> 1080p video streams (MPEG-4) need about 5-8 Mbps burst bandwidth.
> Gigabit Ethernet has practical throughput about 300Mbps.

???  I routinely get over 100 MB/sec (>800 Mbps) transferring files --
even with scp -- between systems with fast enough disks.
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