Yep for sure, fs.com are also my go-to for pluggables and optics/patch leads etc. Their pushing their full chassis now too, but I've not been game to try.

A few years ago I got a good deal on an EX4300 which has kept me going. I'd been buying so much stuff from fs.com that they thought I was buying for a small business/data centre. lol

Here's what they used for the DIA. It's the non 10Gbps version

Cool. Same fibre drop?

I guess they are using the same PON as their regular broadband, just keeping the 1Gbps DIA "circuit" bandwidth reserved.

Exactly. My previous line was with Vaioni. Exact same speed and latency. I have wondered what will happen as the area gets busier. So far, no change and speeds are the same at different parts of the day.

Probably not much to be fair. There will be oodles of capacity on the 10 Gbps XGS-PON "bearer" both for shared broadband (even several 3 Gbps services) AND your DIA. If there was PON congestion, its not too difficult for them to switch you to another PON.

That's what I'm hoping. Tbh I'm happy to see residents switching to them. Besides getting better internet, it's good to see CF having success. No point in having a good service and the business goes bust.

In reply to a post by roundrobin:

They do yeah. My 40Gbps ones are very warm even when transferring minimal data. It's why I like FS.com as things are cheap to replace. lol

Like it says on fs.com:
https://i.imgur.com/jLibbyt.png

Edited by candlerb (Sat 21-May-22 13:54:38)

Hahahaha. Brilliant

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Yep for sure, fs.com are also my go-to for pluggables and optics/patch leads etc. Their pushing their full chassis now too, but I've not been game to try.

Their optics are great, but their switches suck.

I bought four S3900-48T6S-R, which were incredibly cheap for 48x1G with 6x10G uplink and dual PSU. But two of them rebooted themselves after a number of weeks in service. Then one got into a state where it was forwarding packets but it was unable to send packets from the CPU - meaning no management access of course, but worse, spanning tree BPDUs were not being sent out.

They released some new firmware and these problems haven't recurred, but it's too late for me to trust them any more. They've now been moved right to the edge of the network for ILO duties only, and will probably end up as scrap.

They no longer sell that exact model, which may be as a result of problems like the above.

As far as I can tell, their switches are rebadged from other vendors, but you can't tell which switch comes from where. For example, the S3900 and S3900-R ranges are from two completely different vendors with different chipsets and firmware (see here). So you might be lucky and choose a good one, or you might get a lemon model like I did.

For example, the S3900 and S3900-R ranges are from two completely different vendors with different chipsets and firmware (see here). So you might be lucky and choose a good one, or you might get a lemon model like I did.

Mmmnm. Yeah that's not very confidence inspiring at all. I'll stick to their bread and butter.