Optimising optical: converter, SFP module and cable choices

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Yeah, Media Converter do vary quite dramatically on their internals. Here’s an example from when someone raised the Sonore Optical module (take a look at the picture, it’s the “audiophile tax” in action )

Sonore optical rendu

Well Brian, as they say, a picture is worth a 1,000 words; [Sonore vs. TrendNet] Top: Sonore’s previous model optical module (non “Deluxe”). Price $395 Bottom: TrendNet Fibre Media converter that provides the same exact function (virtually identical to the TP-Link one). Price $46.99 The TrendNet is better in every single way, from power regulation, to completely discrete Ethernet Magnetics, for basically a tenth the price. Granted I don’t know what the Sonore “Deluxe” model looks like insi…

W.r.t the ADOT, I can’t recall exactly, but the last time I looked, it was just another Taiwanese or PRC OEM, there was nothing special about it.

By the way, how much regulation is designed onto the converter also depends on the sensitivity of the chips and other components within the unit, it’s not always about how much external noise is reduced or not.