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@niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be I was genuinely surprised when I connected the AliExpress switch with two 10 GbE ports that sits next to my modem to HPE 1950 switch in my basement, and 10 Gb link worked, despite the 55 m distance over 20 years old CAT5e. There are two more 2x10Gb+4x2.5Gb switches between my workstation and the modem switch, and I still got around 920 MB/s through SMB. I did have to replace those 55m of CAT5e about half a year later, when it simply refused to connect one day (there's a much shorter run of CAT7 now – the original cable went round and round the stairwell, I put the new one through the holes that were drilled for fibre internet).