Why do you bother with 10/100 ethernet still? Why not just have gigabit ethernet on all (new) products? It’s the standard these days everywhere.
For example, HAP ac lite/ lite tower. So wireless can go beyond 100mbps but ethernet can only reach 100mbps. It doesn’t make any sense.
Sure you can have one or two 10/100 super cheap devices for learning, especially those older products… but why do this for new products?
Because even new devices have to be as cheap as possible? Looks like a kind of some tradeoff… It’s not only about ports and switches but also about cpu because users normally expect that device having gigabit ports is able to forward data at that speeds… But otherwise you are right even not everyone needs gigabits for home web browsing yet.
It is a “lite” product! And you will find that in practice such wireless links will not go anywhere near 100 Mbit/s full duplex, no matter
what the sales brochures tell you. WiFi specs (of all manufacturers) only refer to raw radio rates, not to net end-to-end throughput.
And THAT is what matters when considering the ethernet speed.
mind telling me the point of → ac ← when your backbone is 100mbps?
Higher spectrum density usage?
With “normal” N-type radios you will not be able to achieve 100 Mbps full duplex throughput.
With AC maybe, but probably not either.
So even with 100 Mbps ethernet, AC may be desirable.
If you are a performance junkie, you can either buy something else with gigabit ports, or trunk two 100M ports.
Just don’t buy the lite products and you’ll be fine.