Thunderbolt 3 internet networking?

[Blitzbrieg Dimarectic]

This morning i woke up thinking,"could internet trafficking through thunderbolt 3 be worth it?". since we are talking about Thunderbolt 3 a connection with speeds up to 5GB or higher that's 5,000MBps! higher than my business internet connection which its maximum upload is 6 Mbps and the Max download being 63 Mbps Currently with our modem in which leaves us with a lot of headroom for NAS and PC streaming use Inline of the network. Tell me what you think of it. Is it worth it? is it worth the cost? is it cheaper than a 10Gb network setup? How would that actually work? can i host servers so i can access the information remotely on this network setup (Using port port forwarding)? what would actually be a more practical use for thunderbolt 3?

[Shubham Yadav]

AFAIK, it will still use the same protocols and hence won't be able to run over 10 Gbps. Just like Ethernet over USB 3.0 can only run till 1 Gbps despite the 5 Gbps limit.

[Oshino Shinobu]

If we're talking actual Thunderbolt to a network interface, you're going to incur the costs of 10GbE equipment if you want to exceed 1Gbps, as it's the networking side of things that is the limitation. 

 

 

[Evil E.]

Your bottleneck is your internet connection, it cannot even fill a 100mbps network, so why bother with thunderbolt ?

[brwainer]

Aside from the question about your WAN speed, I'd also like to point out that there are no routers with thunderbolt 3 interfaces. Thunderbolt 1 and 2 could be used as a direct connection between two computers, I'm assuming Thunderbolt 3 can do the same - but that doesn't help you make a "network". Chaining together a bunch of computers is a very antiquated network topology, there are many reasons why no one uses it anymore. The only thing you could do with Thunderbolt 3 is attach a 10Gb PCIe network adaptor (ethernet or SFP+)

[Blitzbrieg Dimarectic]

Thankyou for the info! I do understand that there will be a bottleneck at the modem (Source of internet). and now i know that networking with thunderbolt can not happen until developers create Hardware for that to happen.

 

Thankyou for your responses.