Re: 10g residential CPE

[Darin Steffl <darin.steffl () mnwifi com>]

Aaron,

One simple question. Why on earth would you offer free internet service?
How and why? Your site show 1 Gig symmetrical for free when you should be a
minimum of $65 per month to be competitive.

On Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 12:31 PM Aaron Wendel <aaron () wholesaleinternet net>
wrote:

> We run MikroTik RB4011s for residential speeds between 1G and 10G or just
> supply a media converter.  For residential 40G and 100G we just drop in
> Arista or Extreme switches.  SMBs are normally just a media converter or
> direct fiber handoff.
>
> https://mikrotik.com/product/rb4011igs_5hacq2hnd_in
>
> There are not a lot of options for good, off the shelf 10G CPE equipment.
> The handful of 10G residential customers we have seem to be happy with the
> tik.  The couple that don’t use it have rolled their own solution.
>
> Like anything, I’m sure once the major home broadband providers start to
> catch up with us smaller guys the vendors will catch up as well.
>
> https://www.kcfiber.com/residential
>
> Aaron
>
>
> On Dec 26, 2020, at 11:53 AM, Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org> wrote:
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> 
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> i really don't get what the problem is. it's like they're being
> deliberately obtuse.
>
>
> Michael,
>
> If vendors saw a 10GbE CPE market, they would serve it. Obviously they
> don’t see a market. Why don’t people insisting vendors build their hobby
> horse see that? It’s like they’re being deliberately obtuse :)
>
> -mel via cell
>
> On Dec 26, 2020, at 9:16 AM, Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com> wrote:
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> 
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> On 12/26/20 8:00 AM, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
>
>
> Anybody got a feel for what percent of the third-party gear currently sold
> to
>
> consumers has sane bufferbloat support in 2020, when we've *known* that
>
> de-bufferbloated gear is a viable differentiatior if marketed right
> (consider the
>
> percent of families that have at least one gamer who cares)?
>
>
> I don't know percentages, but just trying to find cpe that support it in
> their specs is depressingly small. considering that they're all using linux
> and queuing discipline software is ages old, i really don't get what the
> problem is. it's like they're being deliberately obtuse. given all of the
> zoom'ing happening now you think that somebody would hit them with the
> clue-bat that this is a marketing opportunity.
>
>
> Mike