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New Zealand to get 10 Gbps fibre to premises in 2020

itnews.com.au

Whereas next door in Australia many people struggle to get 25mbps with their FTTN connections. NZ really got their role out right.

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.

Afaik the Council deciding how to roll out NBN was headed by Telstra people.

I'm in an apartment with FTTP. I'm actually sitting right next to the ONT right now, it has 4x 1Gbit ethernet ports and the GPON is physically capable of delivering 2.4Gbit down, 1.2Gbit up.

However ordering anything above 100Mbit is so prohibitively expensive as to make it unavailable.

10mbs on a good day. 5mbps is more common - inner city suburb.

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.

The ER-8-XG router would be able to handle that easily... and it costs only $1800!

https://www.ui.com/edgemax/comparison/

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

According to this (written ~15 days ago), Mellanox ethernet support is being added and should be available in PfSense snapshots:

https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/7537

Mellanox cards are very cheap 2nd hand on Ebay, and are very good quality hardware. Just don't buy them new. :)

eg:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=mellanox+conn...

I’m on 100Mbit Chorus fibre, with the option to go to 1Gbit.

So 10gbps but whats the latency to a standard site/company that isn't near the Australian continent?

So whats the response time for a JP, US, and EU ?

https://wintelguy.com/wanlat.html (WAN Latency Estimator)

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