| 3 Jun 2025 |
 K900 | That's arguably the main advantage of PON | 13:38:33 |
| K900 | It's just cheap as fuck per user | 13:38:51 |
 magic_rb | Is AON perceivably more stable? | 13:39:24 |
| K900 | All you need is a modem (that you're probably going to just make the user pay for anyway) and some fiber splices | 13:39:27 |
| K900 | In reply to @magic_rb:matrix.redalder.org
Is AON perceivably more stable? Depends on what you mean by stable | 13:41:37 |
| K900 | The thing with PON is that the actual bandwidth you get depends on the load on the entire trunk | 13:42:07 |
| magic_rb | Well, idk | 13:42:07 |
| K900 | Like you'll still have the same latency | 13:42:17 |
| magic_rb | Right so the bandwitch fluctuates more and id assume it uses more power | 13:42:44 |
| magic_rb | On my side at least | 13:42:51 |
| K900 | But if everyone on your trunk is downloading stuff at the same time, you'll be sharing the downlinks | 13:43:04 |
| K900 | Well, the downlink, really, singular | 13:43:13 |
| K900 | Because at least in GPON there's usually no subcarrier nonsense or whatever | 13:43:35 |
| K900 | It just blasts out all the packets | 13:43:43 |
| K900 | Like satellite | 13:43:47 |
| magic_rb | AON could be also bottlenecked tho right, because say its 10 users of 1 gigabit but a 5gigabit trunk after the switch | 13:43:56 |
| K900 | Well yes | 13:44:05 |
| magic_rb | With gpon can you have 1 gigabit ends but a 5gigabit trunk? | 13:44:09 |
| K900 | PON just makes overcommitting really cheap | 13:44:27 |
| K900 | In reply to @magic_rb:matrix.redalder.org
With gpon can you have 1 gigabit ends but a 5gigabit trunk? Sure | 13:44:33 |
| K900 | You can have any bandwidth allocation you want | 13:44:47 |
| K900 | As long as it's just an upper limit | 13:44:54 |
| K900 | Well I guess you can also have lower bounds but no one ever does that because why would you leave empty spectrum | 13:45:38 |
| K900 | But also the thing with PON is that you can't just upgrade the trunk | 13:46:03 |
| K900 | You have to upgrade all the modems too | 13:46:20 |
| K900 | Becuase XGSPON and GPON aren't wire compatible | 13:46:29 |
| magic_rb | Ah so i have gpon im pretty sure | 13:46:54 |
| magic_rb | So thats up to what? 2? | 13:47:04 |
| K900 | And GPON just can't go faster than 2.5G total per trunk | 13:47:19 |
| K900 | (down) | 13:47:28 |
