https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/speed-matters-how-ethernet-went-from-3mbps-to-100gbps-and-beyond/

keithr0 wrote:
> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/speed-matters-how-ethernet-went-from-3mbps-to-100gbps-and-beyond/
>

Interesting... I generally only say ethernet when referring to copper
cable with RJ45 connectors, that goes up to 10 Gbps. Although I recall
an article, which I can't find now that Amazon were running 25 Mbps to
connect pizza boxes on Cat6 cable. 1 meter within a rack is just fine at
those speeds. They had bought out a network hardware company which made
the NICs, and they were never offered for sale to anybody else.

Am 02.07.2023 um 11:36:14 Uhr schrieb Ozix:

> Interesting... I generally only say ethernet when referring to copper
> cable with RJ45 connectors, that goes up to 10 Gbps.

Until 2020, in the computing centre of our university they still had
10Base5 thick Ethernet and 10Base2 Cheapernet (thin Ethernet) in the
cable duct, but not in operation.
10Base 2 had some BNC sockets, but also EAD sockets (likewise the
German TAE telephone sockets).

All of that got removed during the redevelopment.
I saved some of the 10Base2 cabling and a 10BaseT (RJ45) 10MBit/s
transceiver for AUI network cards.

AUI was the default for a network card and connected it to the
transceiver, regardless of the transceiving medium.

Nowadays the network card itself includes the transceiver.
Although, the concept of separate transceivers still exists with GBIC
and SPF/QSPF.