| 3 Jun 2025 |
 K900 | It's fiber | 13:49:20 |
| K900 | It's hard to make it incompatible | 13:49:33 |
| K900 | Laser comes in one end and comes out of the other | 13:49:55 |
 magic_rb | Right | 13:50:25 |
| magic_rb | Okay | 13:50:26 |
| magic_rb | Makes sense | 13:50:28 |
| magic_rb | So for home fiber id want AON probably | 13:53:00 |
| magic_rb | I was planning to do p2p only, i dont want to be splicing fiber | 13:53:19 |
| K900 | Oh yeah you can't do PON at home | 13:53:48 |
| K900 | You'd need a modem on every device | 13:54:07 |
| magic_rb | Why not? | 13:54:07 |
| magic_rb | Modem? Wouldnt a gpon sfp module be enough | 13:54:22 |
| magic_rb | Or do i need something fancier | 13:54:27 |
| K900 | And the ISP side hardware is call us for a quote priced | 13:54:30 |
| K900 | In reply to @magic_rb:matrix.redalder.org
Modem? Wouldnt a gpon sfp module be enough That's the trick those things are modems | 13:54:47 |
| K900 | PON isn't Ethernet | 13:54:56 |
| K900 | It's not semantically compatible | 13:55:13 |
| magic_rb | So the isp side is way more complex than my side | 13:55:14 |
| magic_rb | Got it | 13:55:15 |
| K900 | It has its own media layer that you need to shove L3 packets into | 13:55:30 |
| K900 | That handles the whole broadcast down/unicast up thing | 13:55:59 |
| K900 | And whatever other nonsense | 13:56:11 |
| K900 | So the PON SFP "modules" aren't Ethernet media converters, they're actual modems that just have an SFP shaped Ethernet link coming out of the other side | 13:56:53 |
| K900 | But inside is the exact same hardware as a modem box, just in a different form factor | 13:57:30 |
| magic_rb | Right ive been told some can be flashed with owrt even | 13:57:54 |
| K900 | I think the Lantiq ones can yeah | 13:58:07 |
| K900 | But those don't do over 1GbE | 13:58:16 |
| K900 | On the Ethernet side | 13:58:19 |
| magic_rb | "I have openwrt in my openwrt man" | 13:58:33 |
| magic_rb | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
But those don't do over 1GbE Are they like older? | 13:58:47 |
