[ale] Home fiber network?

[Matt Rideout]

I agree with Scott. With 10GBase-T out, unless you have a compelling 
reason to go with fiber, I'd stick to copper to save money.

If you wanted to learn more about running fiber, the book that I used 
years ago was "LAN Wiring" by James Trulove. It's a good book that I 
still refer to from time to time.

scott mcbrien wrote, On 08/28/2009 09:41 AM:
> 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 <mailto: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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