There are options for cost effective smaller 10g fanless switches that are perfect for this situation....
Ones coming to my place in May... On Sun, 22 Mar 2020, 7:02 pm Tony Wicks, <t...@wicks.co.nz> wrote: > >Sorry from uneducated understanding but how practical would have fibre to > the home end-to-end across the country really been? I'm sure this is > something Bevan might understand with his experience truck rolling fibre > installs. But surely backhoe->ing the whole country is a nice idea in > theory but surely this would have never scaled/taken a long time/cost a lot > of money? > > > Actually glance about 2000km to the East and you will se how practical and > successfully it can be done. In the FTTH rollout in NZ is only a few years > from completion, it now moving down to the towns of 2000 houses size (yes a > house in a tiny little town can get gigabit FTTH). Its pretty simple > really, where power is overhead so is the fibre. I have a nice 1G/0.5G > service at home (retail about $90AU/mth) and 2G/2G &4G/4G are rolling out > by mid year. If there is sufficient will and force removing companies > trying to clip the ticket on the way by then its very practical. The really > funny thing is a significant amount of the dwelling > penetration/installation is actually being done by an Australian contract > company (visionstream). Cities in NZ are built pretty much the same way as > in Australia, the whole its too hard to do all the house penetrations has > comprehensively been proved to be absolute rubbish (the excuse of Australia > being bigger and harder is bolloks, the bulk of the cost is in the > penetration and this is almost identical). The difference between the way > it’s been successfully done in NZ and not in Australia is the Government > plaid hardball with Telecom NZ (power companies got the contracts in > several areas) and they split into two companies (Chorus, the lines company > and Spark the retail service provider). In Australia the government did > nothing that might upset Telstra shareholder value, and that’s how you get > NBN. > > > > Hmm, do I upgrade my home connection to 4G, the problem is my 10G switch > is pretty noisy and I don’t think the missus would like it running all the > time…. What an issue to grapple with… > > > > > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog >
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