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I'm in an area where Google Fiber offers 2 Gbps service. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, the 2 Gbps service doesn't allow for (or didn't, when I looked int
by theevilsharpie 4y ago
I'm in an area where Google Fiber offers 2 Gbps service.
Unfortunately, for whatever reason, the 2 Gbps service doesn't allow for (or didn't, when I looked into it) the use of your own routing equipment -- you have to use the wireless router that they provide.
The 5+ Gbps blog explicitly mentions being able to use your own routing equipment, so that's a promising sign. I'm not in the regions that Google Fiber explicitly listed, but I'll be keeping an eye on future announcements.
- dvno42 4y agoYou may already know this, but while not 'officially supported' Google will not block you from bringing your own equipment on their 2Gbe service. The ONT on a stick (aka SFP) plugged into the Technicolor manufacturered router Google provides can me moved to other routers. The difficulty is that instead of negotiating at the usual 1 or 10Gbe, the SFP negotiates at 2.5Gbe (commonly known as Multigig). There's next to no hardware on the market that supports Multigig, this makes it seems like no other equipment works with Google's service. I wish they just went straight to SFP+ but I'm sure there are good reasons why they did not.
- smachiz 4y agoThere's a lot of 2.5G copper stuff on the market now - lots being driven by 6E access points. I assume there's no reason that you can't use a 2.5G copper SFP module to connect to this also?
- 14u2c 4y agoI would assume all those modules would be 2.5G to SFP+? I've never seen a standard SFP module do more than one 1G. If what the OP is saying is correct, the way Google is doing it is very odd.
- zinekeller 4y ago> If what the OP is saying is correct, the way Google is doing it is very odd. 2.5Gbps SFP is technically a standard, but since it came out after SFP+ has been standardised no-one really bothered to use it.