| 8 Jul 2025 |
 hexa | but otoh I don't want a full sfp+ switch either for home usage | 13:21:22 |
| hexa | copper sfps are too expensive for that 😄 | 13:21:30 |
 adamcstephens | In my understanding they also draw significantly more power | 13:22:11 |
| hexa | more than specced for the port, yeah | 13:22:30 |
| hexa | otoh dacs tend to use less power than a copper link for some reason I don't grok | 13:22:54 |
| hexa | the new double port 10Gbase-T card from intel still uses 5.7W with both ports up | 13:24:29 |
| hexa | and an SFP+ module usually eats less than a Watt | 13:24:41 |
| hexa | at least up to and including LR optics | 13:25:16 |
| hexa | so for anything >5Gbps just use SFP+/SFP28 if you can 🤷 | 13:25:51 |
 magic_rb | A 1gig sfp+ module cant eat that much | 13:27:32 |
 emily | AIUI it's because the range is much less | 13:28:18 |
| emily | like 8P8C would be a lot simpler if it could only go up to 7 m | 13:29:00 |
| emily | instead of 100 | 13:29:05 |
| hexa | 1gig is just "sfp", and we're not talking about 1gbps links, just use copper for those as needed | 13:29:19 |
| emily | personally I just want 8+ 10 Gbit/s SFP+ right now | 13:29:41 |
| hexa | well, that's probably easier to get than a mix of multi-gig ports, poe and spf+ uplink ports | 13:30:25 |
 Tom | https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/39b9b491bb585ba6c16dfc28e5dd0316c8fe7b0d
This one was added quite recently. | 14:41:23 |
