| 1 Jun 2025 |
 K900 | And none of them follow the IEEE spec that was written after the fact to standardize SOMETHING | 11:43:27 |
 emily | then I guess I'm going to have a lot of fun | 11:43:51 |
| emily | I do recall you saying you knew of no reason it shouldn't work though :p | 11:44:02 |
| emily | I finally booted NixOS on the thing yesterday so I guess I'll be having NixOS-brand fun soon as well | 11:44:38 |
 magic_rb | Are we talking about 2.5g optical or copper? Does it matter | 11:44:57 |
| magic_rb | Like, the 2500BASE-X is it a thing between the bpi and the sfp module? | 11:45:14 |
| K900 | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
I do recall you saying you knew of no reason it shouldn't work though :p Yeah it should work in modes that are real | 11:45:19 |
| emily | yeah | 11:45:21 |
| emily | re magic_rb | 11:45:25 |
| K900 | In reply to @magic_rb:matrix.redalder.org
Like, the 2500BASE-X is it a thing between the bpi and the sfp module? Yes somewhat | 11:45:27 |
| K900 | It's complicated | 11:45:32 |
| emily | there are SFP+s that do 2.5GBASE-T into 10000BASE-X | 11:45:37 |
| emily | using "pause frames" | 11:45:41 |
| emily | in fact that seems more common than ones that do it into 2500BASE-X | 11:45:50 |
| emily | since a lot of switches and stuff only support 10G | 11:45:55 |
| K900 | Part of the problem is that the PON modem thingies aren't actually like | 11:46:15 |
| emily | however I'd quite like 2500BASE-X because it really does seem like heat/power have a significant effect on the WiFi noise | 11:46:20 |
| K900 | Transceivers | 11:46:23 |
| magic_rb | sigh what did i get myself into | 11:46:24 |
| emily | btw I can't imagine why this wouldn't work. you can get cheaper modules for this though | 11:46:40 |
| emily | I don't think there's many compatibility issues with fibre modules? | 11:46:45 |
| K900 | They emulate a transceiver connected to a non-existent cable | 11:46:53 |
| emily | I could be totally wrong here but I think they're all kinda the same | 11:46:58 |
| emily | it's copper that's weird | 11:47:07 |
| K900 | That has the modem on the other end | 11:47:08 |
| K900 | And it has like ten different modes it can emulate | 11:47:16 |
| K900 | Over half of which are Realtek vendor bullshit | 11:47:29 |
| emily | for instance I found that this 1000BASE-T transceiver can't do jumbo frames | 11:47:29 |
| magic_rb | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
They emulate a transceiver connected to a non-existent cable The what now, im gonna get a fritzbox with a sfp pon from my provider soon, will try showing it into my bpi to see what happens :D | 11:47:31 |
| emily | so that sucks for me | 11:47:34 |
