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Plenty of isps that provide internet over regular ethernet. But it's a ye olde telecom provider term that referred to the phone, that you also didnt own yoursel
by Hikikomori 7mo ago
Plenty of isps that provide internet over regular ethernet. But it's a ye olde telecom provider term that referred to the phone, that you also didnt own yourself. Doesn't always apply cleanly these days.
- BenjiWiebe 7mo agoReally? They have buried Cat5/6 cable speaking Ethernet coming onto your property? I've never heard of that before. How does that work? Your ISP would always have to have some infrastructure within 100 meters of your router then.
- dekhn 7mo agoIn my case I have AT&T Fiber that IIUC carries ethernet frames encoded optically.
- BenjiWiebe 7mo agoBut then you'd need the "somewhat specialized card" to turn a Linux box into a "CPE" - a fiber transceiver.
- Hikikomori 7mo agoNo. But fiber to the building and rj45 inside is common here. Or fiber to each apartment. All regular ethernet.
- bombcar 7mo agoUsually it's "something else" that turns into RJ45 (as ethernet has a maximum length) - now if you're in a datacenter you likely can get raw RJ45 Internet).
- Hikikomori 7mo agoFiber uses ethernet as well. Though ethernet fiber to the building and rj45 inside is common too.
- BenjiWiebe 7mo agoYes, but then you'd need a "somewhat specialized card" to turn a Linux computer into a "CPE" - a fiber transceiver.
- Hikikomori 7mo agoAnd what if you just have rj45? Is a ethernet card also special? Transceivers aren't particularly special or hard to get either. Point is that's not what makes it a CPE, ownership does. It's an old term used by telecom to refer to the phone they owned that's in the customers home. It has been used after by internet providers if they put a device in your home. If it's your own device it's not a CPE as seen from the isp perspective.