New Zealand to get 10 Gbps fibre to premises in 2020

Post by rasz » Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 10:40 AM UTC

ksec wrote: post #6

LIV2 wrote: post #3

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Unfortunately our government is very anti-technology and would like for all Australians to grow up to be coal miners instead of building a tech based economy.

I have heard from my friends in AUS, and he said there were lots of interest from Old Cables, Satellite, and TV companies to not want people with faster Internet where OTT will become the norm. Not sure if this is true.

Post by smcleod » Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 11:17 AM UTC

Youden wrote: post #8

y4mi wrote: post #5

I just switched to gigabit. Not even my 200€ router (ubiquity ER-4) would be able to handle 10. Though that's a nice problem to have

I'm curious if anyone knows of a good option for symmetric 10Gbps at home. Only thing I can think of is a Mikrotik CRS305-1G-4S+IN 10Gb switch and a PC with a NIC with two 10Gb SFP+ ports to handle NAT, DHCP etc.

Post by justinclift » Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 2:54 PM UTC

smcleod wrote: post #13

Youden wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious if anyone knows of a good option for symmetric 10Gbps at home. Only thing I can think of is a Mikrotik CRS305-1G-4S+IN 10Gb switch and a PC with a NIC with two 10Gb SFP+ ports to handle NAT, DHCP etc.

Running PFSense on a device with an Intel 10Gbit NIC performs incredibly well and is certainly very affordable especially if you buy the NIC second hand