Aquinus
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I would argue that the people that this product is targeting does not need 10Gbps or 2.5Gbps ports. However for the sake of argument, there is hardware with SFP+ ports that would still be cheaper, but it's rack mount hardware because they know the market that they're targeting. What Netgear here is doing is marketing to people where money is no object or people with more money than common sense, because if you truly want 10Gbps you're going to put a little more effort than just throwing a ton of money at it for just a mesh network, particularly if you're doing it yourself. If you really want 10Gbps, you're not meshing the entire network. It's really that simple.Does that router have two 10 Gbps and four 2.5 Gbps ports?
I'm not trying to defend Netgears pricing here, as it's stupid, but the hardware should be pretty solid.
Also, I happen to know that when you mesh, you definitely don't get anywhere near the full rated speed of the device. So I'd argue that if you want 10Gbps or 2.5Gbps on a machine, that you should be using a wire, not wireless and investing in some stupid expensive, early adopter hardware.