Hey so I was reading some conflicting information and I’m wondering how I get 2.5gb out of the rb5009 I would assume it’s as simple as getting an sfp±rj45 trasceiver and connecting the ont to that and then connecting the machine via the 2.5gb port does that give you 2.5gb of speed?
It CAN depending on all the whistles & bells you activate on the RB5009 and the type of ISP-connection.
I really doubt it will deliver 2.5Gbps over a PPPoE connection. PPPoE encap/decap is not a multi-thread process and will be bound to a single CPU-core I think.
If your ISP delivers Internet across a classic Ethernet + (VLAN) + DHCP that you save quite some % CPU and then thing look differently.