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Finally broke 10 Gbps on our fiber circuit and I almost missed it
After six months of fighting with our provider over latency and speed issues, I ran a routine speed test last Tuesday and saw 10.2 Gbps. I was just checking if the circuit was still alive, so I nearly closed the browser tab before I noticed. We are a small company so getting that much bandwidth actually working is a big deal for us. Turns out the issue was a bad SFP module the whole time, the tech swapped it last week. Has anyone else had a small hardware swap make that much of a difference on a enterprise circuit?
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karenhenderson19d ago
Bad hardware really can make you pull your hair out. We had a similar thing with a switch port that just kept having random dropouts and it turned out to be a dirty SFP connection that needed reseating. It is wild how a tiny piece of plastic can hold up a whole circuit like that. Glad they finally figured it out for you, that has to feel great after all that waiting.
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