I have 5 Managed switches, for a complete Enterprise setup, the switches would be connected via fiber ports instead of Ethernet ports. Much, much, much faster network
I even have 2 SFP ports on my room switches of which I could use one to connect to my workstations via a
10Gb Fiber NIC. Of course this is a bit over kill for a home network, but I have the switches that can do this. I would assume at 10Gb I should get extremely fast file transfer speeds.
You're talking to an ethernet fan. Wired connections all the way. And PoE is amazing.
If I build a new house, it'll have etherne ports literally everywhere and a full rack in the basement.
Anyway, my mesh network nodes will connect to the mesh master through ethernet, instead of wireless. That should really improve things.
In my previous home, I used to have a rack in the basement and in fact I am selling my rack off on Craigslist which you can see over at
27U Server / Audio Rack Cabinet - computer parts - by owner -...
We used it to managed our modem, router, switches, DVR home entertainment, and security cameras setup. Each computer or devices would be connected via Ethernet. We did have a wifi but we tried to avoid using it as much we can
We decided to get rid of the rack and focus on building a good wifi mesh in our new home but all the security cameras and DVR still on cat6 ethernet cable to a PoE switch along with my home automation hub and RaspPI to link the home hub to Apple Homekit.
With a good wifi mesh, none of my family have any issue with data transfer or streaming what they want to watch. We have Apple TV (our HomeKit hub), 4 Smart TVs, 4 FireTV, all of us are iPhone users (We have 4 kids), 8 laptops, 5 tablets, and only 1 desktop. All of our kids have game console like Xbox and Nintendo switches (all 4 have their own switches. We also have 2 video phone (using Powerline Ethernet plugs).
We may have to reboot our network 2 or 3 time a year because our ISP modem would lock up and create an ip conflict but other than that we have ZERO issue with our network and wifi mesh setup. Instead of a rack, we have a shelf with modem, 2 hub, PoE switch, camera DVR and a router.
Anytime we need to transfer large files or data, we use USB3 drive now .. no need to tied up our network with file transferring and it not often we need to transfer huge files or data from one computer to another. We do have Western Drive NAS drive but we stopped using it after using USB3 drive more often so it sit in drawer unplugged.
I believe a good wifi mesh setup is the way to go in future.... Look at telephone, many homes still have telephone wires inside of it walls but how many of those homes still actually have a working telephone plugged into it. My folks who are both in the 80's no longer have telephone plugged into the wall and finally gotten rid of it last year realizing that smartphone is the way to go so our family took time to teach them and they were willing to learn it. Now my dad who's 88 is a pro on iPhone.