+1 on extreme caution on a pull. <br><br>Use fish-cord wrapped around a _long_ section of the fibre jacket with the finished end fully wrapped in plastic and taped to the pull line. You will need to use at least a 3/4" conduit (with NO BENDS) or 1" with long sweeping bends (i.e a right angle requires a 1 foot bending radius) and pulling lube (thus the fully wrapped ends). You want the pulling strain distributed over several feet of the jacket so spiral-wrap cord to fiber and straight tape pull cord to fiber. That way the cord will cinch up on the jacket and the tape will help distribute the load as well and keep the cord from slipping.<br>
<br>There are fibre to copper translators that are under $100 each fro 10/100 connections. They use a wall wart for power. A pair of fibre-nics is only slightly more but will use one machine as a gateway.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:11 AM, John Pilman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jcpilman@gmail.com" target="_blank">jcpilman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">My experience with fiber is from work. I would be cautious of trying to pull terminated fiber through too small of a conduit. If you break the fiber then you're out the $200 and have to start over. I would consider contracting someone to put terminations on after you pull the cable, then use shorter jumper cables to your equipment. Pre-terminated cables have strain relief ends, un-terminated cables do not. So try to avoid the temptation to pull un-terminated cable, then add terminations and connect directly to the equipment.<br>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">...John<div><br></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:05 AM, William Bagwell <<a href="mailto:rb211@tds.net" target="_blank">rb211@tds.net</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div class="im"><p class="MsoNormal"><br>The round 'ST'<br>
connectors look like they would fit through smaller (cheaper) conduit? Be<br>
nice to have them on at least one end.<br></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>
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