| 3 Jun 2025 |
 emily | (also MMF might come out cheaper for the latter but it seems like it's kind of stupid to do that if you're bothering to run fibre in the first place from what I've read…) | 14:19:39 |
| emily | huh the AlIExpress AOCs are actually more expensive than the Amazon ones! | 14:20:05 |
| emily | I do not understand anything. networking is a mystery to me. | 14:20:15 |
 magic_rb | Same! | 14:20:55 |
| emily | anyway my feeling is that if you can just plug an AOC into both ends then it is very convenient and foolproof. | 14:21:36 |
| emily | but if you want a project than yeah you can try and pull OS2 through the walls or whatever. | 14:21:47 |
| magic_rb | Not OM2? | 14:22:28 |
| magic_rb | I was eyeing OM3 for "headroom" | 14:22:36 |
| emily | my conclusion from what I've read is ^ | 14:22:44 |
| emily | OS2 can handle anything. | 14:22:48 |
| emily | like it will scale up to a terabit or whatever. | 14:22:52 |
| emily | and the fibre is cheaper. | 14:22:54 |
| emily | the only downside is that the transceivers are more expensive. | 14:22:59 |
| magic_rb | Ah so os2 is single mode, om2 is multimode | 14:23:44 |
| emily | but from my casual arithmetic it seemed like the price difference wasn't much at all for the futureproofing and if you're going to the fuss of pulling fibre through then it seems pointless to do it with MMF. | 14:23:45 |
| magic_rb | Well i wont be living there in 3 years probanly :P | 14:24:22 |
| emily | yeah in which case it seems like you could just run an AOC and be done with it :P | 14:24:51 |
| magic_rb | But thats doesnt sound as fun :P | 14:25:04 |
| emily | but also presumably you will take the transceivers etc. when you move | 14:25:05 |
| magic_rb | Yeah im not leaving fibre in the walls, no point | 14:25:18 |
| emily | so having single-mode transceivers will be useful when you wire up your gigantic mansion that you're going to live in for 100 years | 14:25:27 |
| magic_rb | There are maybe 10 people in this city that want fiber in their walls | 14:25:28 |
| emily | btw you could also just run 10GBASE-T :P | 14:25:46 |
| magic_rb | Yeah i think buying the transceivers and cable separately makes more sense from a "reparability" perspective or whatever | 14:26:11 |
| magic_rb | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
btw you could also just run 10GBASE-T :P The what | 14:26:13 |
| magic_rb | I didnt know that single mode is better than multi mode | 14:26:32 |
| emily | I mean you could just do Cat6a. | 14:27:05 |
| magic_rb | Nah thats lame | 14:27:18 |
| emily | right. so since rational considerations aren't being applied, pull single-mode through the walls :P | 14:27:49 |
| magic_rb | Also, https://aliexpress.com/item/1005008715735444.html | 14:27:53 |
