10 Gbps

nlel1975 · 17 Apr 2020 at 11:30

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nlel1975 · 17 Apr 2020 at 12:16

Caged said:
You are not an ISP, the ONT (and OLT) is not worth thinking about because you have no control over it.

I wasn’t suggesting I could change the ONT I just wanted to find out if it needed changing.

nlel1975 · 17 Apr 2020 at 13:05

Caged said:
If you have a Gpon ONT and want to go to 10Gbps then the ONT would need upgrading, yes.

For a complete numpty on these things I think I’m doing rather well.

nlel1975 · 17 Apr 2020 at 13:40

I know but I like to know a bit about what’s involved, to improve my own understanding. I only want to know so much before it all goes above my head.

nlel1975 · 17 Apr 2020 at 18:52

So if I’ve got this right my ISP would have to replace my Genexis 1 Gbps ONT with one like the DKT Comega 79751 which is 10 Gbps. Then either supply me with a router that’s capable of 10 Gbps over its WAN port or buy one myself.

Thing is from what I can see at the moment there’s not many consumer grade routers out there that support 10 Gbps WAN. The best I’ve seen so far is 2.5 Gbps and that was on a £ 300 + ASUS router.

There is the Mikrotik CCR1036-8G-2S+ 36 core CPU but that’s commercial grade and costs £ 718.32 ex VAT.

nlel1975 · 18 Apr 2020 at 09:02

You have to plug the WAN port of the ONT into the WAN port of the router. You can’t plug it into one of the LAN ports otherwise it won’t route. Therefore both the ONT and the router need to support 10 Gbps over WAN if you want 10 Gbps.

nlel1975 · 18 Apr 2020 at 09:57

WJA96 said:
So how does it route traffic from any of the other ports? I think you might want to do a little bit of research into routing and switching.

What’s the WAN port for then? If it doesn’t need it to route out to the Internet.

nlel1975 · 18 Apr 2020 at 11:21

WJA96 said:
Correct. And that’s the only difference. So if I configure the router correctly, any port can be the WAN port.

I guess that’s what you can do on top of the range routers, my Netgear R6800 has a dedicated WAN port that you plug into the ONT. You can’t configure one of the LAN ports to be a WAN port.

nlel1975 · 18 Apr 2020 at 11:36

WJA96 said:
And of course, if you’re running IPv6 you don’t need to be on a separate subnet.

You never said you were configuring one of the LAN ports as a WAN port that’s where I became confused.

nlel1975 · 18 Apr 2020 at 11:41

WJA96 said:
Can’t you just do a port forward so that LAN port 1 goes straight to the WAN port?

Why would I bother the WAN port works fine as it is.

nlel1975 · 30 Jun 2020 at 11:12

Well there’s a rumor going round that 2Gbps will be available at the end of the year...

https://www.channel103.com/news/jersey-news/gigabit-broadband-speeds-to-double-this-year/

Not quite 10 Gbps but a step in the right direction.

nlel1975 · 30 Jun 2020 at 12:19

WJA96 said:
That won’t stop people ordering it...

You’d hope that people who do would be tech savvy enough to know what they need at their end.

nlel1975 · 30 Jun 2020 at 15:09

I think these guys are the fastest on the mainland UK. They are called Zzoomm and do a 2 Gbps service, coverage isn’t great and it’s £ 189 per month.

https://zzoomm.com/zzoomm-switches-on-uks-fastest-full-fibre-home-broadband/

nlel1975 · 30 Jun 2020 at 15:23

Caged said:
It's just a cheap way to grab headlines. Gigaclear 'announced' their 5Gbps plan back in 2016 but it's not on their website

Done a bit of googling and they wanted £ 399 a month for 5 Gbps. For this reason I’m out.