[robbiet480]

I've got AT&T Fiber's 5 gigabit symmetric service (with a Ubiquiti equipment stack that handles 40 gigabit without issue) and while its been very stable and I win all nerd fights with my speed tests, I've been thinking about dropping back down to 1 gigabit because I don't find much value out of 5. If it was cheaper ($180/mo for 5 gigabit) maybe I'd keep it but Astound/WaveG is offering gigabit symmetric for $50/mo with 4 free months so tough to swallow.

[nunez]

I also finally got AT&T's 5Gbit fiber service. (Interestingly, wiring up the house for 10 is easier than 5.) I've found it to be a really help for super large downloads, like bundles of container images, if you can get bits at gigabit speed from the server.

I'm definitely going to upgrade to 10Gbit if AT&T makes it available.

[Aqua_Geek]

What Ubiquiti equipment are you using? Doesn’t their router top out at 3.5Gbps?

[nunez]

The BGW350 that they give you tops out at 5Gbit on the WAN SFP interface and has one 5Gbit RJ45 LAN interface along with two gigabit interfaces.

I connected the 5Gbit to a TP-Link TLSX105 10Gbit switch which has five 10Gbit RJ45 switch ports.

Since my office is on another floor and has more stuff that needs to be hardwired, I have a TP Link TLSX1008 10Gbit switch that has eight 10Gbit switch ports.

I connected the two together and, presto, 5Gbit for everyone.

My Macs have OWC 10Gbit Thunderbolt NICs so they can each get the full 5Gbit.

I tried using a Mikrotik CRS switch/router thing, but dealing with SFP inconsistencies is annoying as hell and it was a very slow router. (You need the higher end CCR routers to get 10Gbit routing, but I just wanted to have all of my devices use the Pi-Hole for DNS, which I could do with DHCP.)

[robbiet480]

UDM Pro

USW-Pro-Aggregation

USW-Pro-48-PoE

US-XG-6PoE

Recently bypassed AT&T's residential gateway by getting a XGS-PON on a SFP+ stick, let me shave off 2ms and gain a couple hundred mbps each way, in addition to removing their crappy gateway.

[nunez]

I thought it wasn't possible to bypass the BGW due to certs?

[robbiet480]

This is the XGS-PON bypass, GPON bypass is different and 802.1x (cert) based. XGS-PON just requires cloning the serial number and MAC of the RG.

[zamadatix]

Which stick did you go with?

[robbiet480]

This one [0] via a group buy on the 8311 Discord [1]. The instructions for use are at [2].

[0]: https://ecin.ca/custom-xgs-pon-sfp-stick-module-xgspon-ont-w...

[1]: https://discord.gg/8311-886329492438671420

[2]: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1UIAgtxkImgFRwyaGDGtI...

[zamadatix]

Dear lord, that is the gnarliest looking SFP I've ever seen. Thanks for the links, this looks great!

[robbiet480]

It's a full ARM stack in there. Can even SSH and telnet to it for a real shell, and it runs a web interface.