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2.5g capable SFP+ switch or media converters
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You’d need a card capable of 2.5 gig and I haven’t been able to find one of those either.
My friend did find these which should work. I think I have a spare 2.5 gig nic somewhere that I could install into my server. I’ll have to do pcie pass through straight to pfsense since ESXi doesn’t support this el cheapo consumer grade nic. But it should work.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4JKSFW6
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C871SQVQ
This guy managed to modify a Broadcom NIC to support 2.5G SFP: https://github.com/Berzerker/google-fiber-2gbps-bypass
I mean it isn't great to have to mod something, but at least it's something
Edit: or apparently you can just ask for a 10G transceiver now: https://www.reddit.com/r/googlefiber/comments/tdgag5/google_fiber_now_installing_fiber_jacks_w10gbe/
Also I thought I should mention I don't have Google Fiber so I can't say if any of this works.
Awesome, I did not know about the 10gig they install now. We have someone coming on Tuesday and I was wanting to convince them to replace both the SFP module and the fiber box. But if we could just replace the SFP and get something that actually works then that’s great.