[ale] Home fiber network?

[scott mcbrien]

Fiber isn't worth it (at least not now).  When you're planning your cat6
pulls, just make sure there's extra room in the bundle and some space around
where the pulls go through studs, walls, or floors.  If at some point in the
future, you want to replace a cat6 drop with fiber, just attach the fiber to
the origination of the cat6, go to the termination point and pull up the
cat6 wire, the fiber you've attached will come right along with it.
What are you doing in the house that is too slow over GigE?  If you compare
the cost of the fiber, and all the equipment that goes with it with Cat6 +
GigE, I think it's hard to find a justification.  Especially considering
that you're boxen are either also going to have to have fiber network cards
in them or are going to talk over copper anyway.

-Scott

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Scott Denlinger
<scott at scottdenlinger.com>wrote:

> I have an old house which I'm remodeling, and I am considering running
> fiber
> instead of cat. 6, since I think fiber won't become as obsolete as quickly
> as
> cat. 6 will. Does this make any sense to consider? I've run cables before,
> and
> could do the termination of copper myself, but would I be out of my league
> trying to run fiber? I would have to bring someone in to terminate
> everything
> and test it, but I'm reasonably confident I could design the network, and
> run
> the fiber myself, so I'm sure I could save on a lot of the labor costs,
> even if
> I need someone to terminate all the connections.
>
> Are there good Internet resources out there for RESIDENTIAL fiber networks?
> A
> lot of what I've seen in my searching so far seems to involve commercial
> installations.
>
> Another factor is location--I'm in Statesboro, and there's at least one guy
> here in town
> who claims to be able to do fiber installations, but I haven't gotten into
> specifics with him. I'm sure there are folks in Savannah who could come out
> and
> do it pretty easily, especially if they didn't have to spend time running
> the
> fiber themselves. I imagine if they're only terminating and hooking up
> onsite
> equipment, it's a 1-day job at most.
>
> Thanks for any tips, insights or caveats.
>
> Scott Denlinger
>
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