It's interesting as probably 15-20 years ago our offices were all kitted out with Cat5e. Mostly it is still running at 100Mbps because there is no need for more than that for the bulk of users. Where there is a higher need 1Gbps is more than adequate even now. The fact this cabling has lasted so long and is still not running anywhere near capacity would suggest most home aren't liklely to need more than 1Gbps for a long time - only techies (who know the cabling anyway) are likely to push the boundaries of 1Gbps.

I'm struggling to think why the average domestic user would ever need 10Gbps and rarely use as much as 1Gbps - other than for speed test purposes

In reply to a post by Adduxi:

Thinking outside the box. You could run the cable externally from inside the house, up the outside wall into the roofspace to a switch and drop cables down to each bedroom. ?
Just a thought

Switch would probably require a mains power socket - perhaps another job for an electrician?

A quote springs to mind about nobody ever needing more than 650K base memory

In reply to a post by longedge:

A quote springs to mind about nobody ever needing more than 650K base memory

Must be inflation, I thought it was no more than 640K base memory.

Mind you I recall in around 1966-67 talking to our computer designers and engineers and being told that our mainframe memory was around £1 / byte. A tad cheaper these days.

Backing up large photoshop files, backing up home videos created on smartphones that record at 4K, editing such content. Now that internal disks are SSD they are faster than 1Gbps.

My old SATA drives were 3Gbps connected!

I don't know about the £1 a byte but recall that the 1MB Ampex (?) core box "add-on" for our 360/65 in the late 60s cost a mint and was bought with a special grant from the SRC. Hand made wires and ferrite cores in a big box. Prior to that our 360 had just 512KB.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

Backing up large photoshop files, backing up home videos created on smartphones that record at 4K, editing such content. Now that internal disks are SSD they are faster than 1Gbps.

My old SATA drives were 3Gbps connected!

The bit you missed was 'average home user'.

Neither you nor I can be tarred with that brush

In reply to a post by cheshire_man:

Mind you I recall in around 1966-67 talking to our computer designers and engineers and being told that our mainframe memory was around £1 / byte. A tad cheaper these days.

Don't you mean 'core' not memory

Very true! Although things have changed over time. Lots of people seem to now keep gigs of photos and video.