On 2/9/19 1:13 PM, Baldur Norddahl wrote:
GPON is 2.4 Gbps downstream and 1.2 Gbps upstream.
Okay. I guess I've not thought about the fact that the GPON itself might be ~> is asymmetric. From my naive point of view, I see a 1G/1G symmetric Ethernet hand off from the ONT to my equipment. Hence my uninformed understanding.
Residential users are download heavy and more than 1:2. However there is a big difference between average, peak and micro burst. The conclusion is not simple.
ACK
We typically have 60+ users on each port. We sell 1000/1000 internet. And yet we only get good ratings for the speed.
I've learned that people are quick to judge harshly and slow to complement. Or that good or better speeds ratings are lost to other things like price and / or other services offered, like native IPv6 or not.
I find that many, that are sceptical about the shared bandwidth of GPON, forget that a typical POP might only be fed by a 10 Gbps uplink. Usually this has much lower bandwidth per user than the GPON link.
I remember having these discussions in the early 2000's about ADSL vs Cable Modem. I wonder if some of the earlier horror stories are unconsciously biasing people's opinions. Or if people quite literally only look at / think about the directly attached network segment. -- Grant. . . . unix || die