Does 10G nics for home servers actually do anything? I have a gigabit router and the motherboard on my server is 2.5G. Wouldn’t the 10G be throttled once it hits the 1G router and then only send out that speed to all other devices? Would I actually be getting better speeds than what I pay for also?
On prosumer side, it allows for higher LAN transfer speeds and also allow for higher WAN speeds (such as 2.5Gb) and future proofing. They are common in the enterprise environment when one device aggregates the data from many other devices.