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there is a pretty good chance that 20-30 meters of cat5e utp in a house will test successfully for 2.5GBaseT today, not that even one percent of consumers will have such a switch.



Officially 2.5G can run up to 100m on Cate 5e:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_over_twisted_pair#Var...

So I wouldn't be surprised if 5GigE, and maybe even 10, could be done on shorter runs.




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