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   feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jun-2025 10:03:57 JST feld

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   • John-Mark Gurney
   @encthenet maybe the new 2.5G and 5G transceivers are good, but I can say from experience (homelab and datacenter work) that the 10g copper transceivers are terrible, evil wretches from the pits of hell
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     John-Mark Gurney (encthenet@flyovercountry.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jun-2025 10:03:59 JST John-Mark Gurney

     Just someone trying to explain why you need their product.

     Having seen the trends over the years, no one need FTTR, not even businesses. The reason is that gige is fine for 99.99% of needs. Most places don't have enough internet bandwidth where you could even use more than gige speeds (and there's not 2.5gbps and 5gbps) to do anything.

     Yes, if you're doing >1gbps, fiber is significantly less power, but again, existing wire plant can likely do 5gbps over copper and still be fine for the rooms that need it.

     > https://geeknews.chat/users/theregister/statuses/114731310439689213