| 3 Jun 2025 |
 emily | AIUI AON is when each subscriber has a point-to-point line that is actively driven | 13:30:22 |
| emily | hence A rather than P | 13:30:26 |
 magic_rb | Aaaa | 13:30:31 |
| emily | and GPON is the ~2 Gbit/s PON thing and XGSPON is the ~10 Gbit/s PON thing | 13:30:35 |
| magic_rb | Okay nice | 13:31:14 |
| magic_rb | But yes interesting that they dont offer 4gig | 13:31:22 |
 K900 | AON is just Nbase-X usually | 13:35:16 |
| K900 | So point to point links | 13:35:21 |
| K900 | Probably to a switch in your basement | 13:35:29 |
| K900 | PON is shared medium | 13:35:40 |
| K900 | With a bunch of users on the same big trunk doing cursed RF things over fiber | 13:36:19 |
| magic_rb | Ahhh | 13:36:50 |
| K900 | The "active"/"passive" distinction really refers to the "switches" | 13:37:02 |
| K900 | Which in PON are basically just fiber splices | 13:37:13 |
| K900 | Because shared medium | 13:37:19 |
| K900 | And in "AON" you need a real Ethernet switch to go from, like, 10 runs of 1000base-x to a 10000base-x trunk | 13:37:52 |
| K900 | Or whatever | 13:37:55 |
| magic_rb | Okay, nice, thanks for the info, thanks a lot | 13:38:07 |
| magic_rb | Im gonna be moving finally all my tech on the 11th so then ill try the bpi with the fritz module again | 13:38:29 |
| 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 |
