[Neywiny]

I'm using the sonnet at work. Work paid for it. Yes it's more expensive. I have gotten over 25 gbps bidirectional, but not by much. Maybe 27. A big downside is that it only supports 15W upstream power which I didn't think to check, so since that laptop only has 2 usb-c ports for power input, it's a bit limiting.

The upside, though, was that I plugged it in, got my throughput, and never had to worry ever again. Remember that engineering time is mucho $$. So troubleshooting overheating, divising a solution, manufacturing it, etc, that all eats into the savings.

The $400 dock would be cool though. It seems smaller than the sonnet and fixes my charging problem. Weirdly I didn't think I'd care about not including transceivers but they did actually come in handy, so that is a downside. Might try to get one of these if I need another one in the future.

[voxadam]

>I'm using the sonnet at work.

I initially read this as SONET[1] and was seriously questioning your technical choices.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_optical_networking

[danw1979]

hey. hey. not everyone’s on board with this packet switching fad, buster.

what a man does in his own homelab, even if it does involve ATM, is none of our business.

[wolvoleo]

ATM was packet switched :) SDH was circuit based.

[pyvpx]

You cell switching cretins are still around?! Back under your rock!! Shoo, shooo!

[icedchai]

Almost 30 years ago, I worked on a corporate campus with several different buildings spread out over about 5 miles. There was a SONET ring linking them. I remember a coworker showing me this add-drop multiplexer thing so he could provision a fractional T1 of bandwidth out of the ring. CSU/DSUs, thick serial cables, cisco 2501 routers... We'd laugh at these speeds today.

[shrubble]

To get 10Mbps of Ethernet, they would bond together 7x T1s on the SONET side...

[walrus01]

I've seen some very old cubicle setups that had two strands of 62.5/125 multimode (OM1) pulled to each desk for a FDDI connection. Very costly in its era.

[itopaloglu83]

Asking out of curiosity because I always wanted but never needed such speeds, could you elaborate on what you do and how does this speed help you? And I presume there’s a reason you’re not able to connect directly to the drives etc. with thunderbolt.

[Neywiny]

I'm not connecting to drives. What I'm connecting to has that speed of interface. And I think that's all I can say about that.