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Originally Posted by csnarpy
A couple of things: cat5e will work to 10G under 40ft. Also, the Telus 3Gig plan comes with an NAH which will already have a sfp inserted. You would just need to bridge the NAH to the 10G port and then plug into that port.
Anything you want to know about Telus fibre, just let me know, been installing it for the last 3 years.
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Thank you for the tip. When you say bridge to do you just mean connect to the NAH admin interface and set the 10G port to bridge mode. I remember doing that for whatever NAH they gave me with my current plan.
I won't be able to test anything for a bit. We haven't moved yet and we spoke with Telus today and they said the fibre setup is not 100% done in the new area I'm moving to (Glacier Ridge) - the runs have been laid but they haven't been terminated. Which is odd because sometimes when I look up availability it says it's there (1Gb, 3Gb) but if I try again sometimes it just says wireless only.
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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
Technically you're correct, and in a datacenter environment Cat 5e is fine. But in household wiring with long runs, all kinds of possible interference, and unknown termination quality I don't think you'd ever see 10Gb speeds. Maybe 2.5 if you're lucky
My main point is that anything over 1Gbps for residential service is mostly marketing from the ISP, it's not worth spending extra money on network gear for it IMO. Very few endpoints would ever take advantage of it in a home, and even if they do the user will likely never even notice. And I have Telus 3Gb myself, simply because it was cheaper than their 1Gb with a promo they had
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This is pretty much one reason we're going with 3Gb - it's the same price as 1Gb for us.
