[ale] Home fiber network?

[Greg Freemyer]

I'm planning on building a new house.  My thought is wireless and repeaters.

They can always be upgraded as speeds increase, but 54gb/sec is pretty
cost effective today I think.  Probably less than the cost of wiring,
etc. even ignoring labor.

If I were designing a new office for dozens of users, then I would
definitely want hardwire lines.

Greg


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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