| 3 Jun 2025 |
 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 |
| magic_rb | Ah so when they offered us 4gig then that means they would have to connect us to xgspon | 13:47:44 |
| K900 | So the best case scenario is that you have multiple trunks per building with like 5 users per trunk | 13:48:04 |
| K900 | But of course no one does that | 13:48:09 |
| K900 | Because that would not be cheap and being cheap is kind of PON's big thing | 13:48:25 |
| K900 | In reply to @magic_rb:matrix.redalder.org
Ah so when they offered us 4gig then that means they would have to connect us to xgspon The cool part is that they can just patch your fiber into a different box | 13:48:45 |
| K900 | And replace your modem | 13:48:51 |
| K900 | Assuming they do have an XGSPON box | 13:48:59 |
| magic_rb | Ah so the fiber medium is compatible? | 13:48:59 |
| magic_rb | That runs between me and the whatever | 13:49:07 |
| K900 | The actual physical fiber is, yes | 13:49:14 |
| K900 | I mean | 13:49:19 |
