> nearly no one uses it for their home network... yet? Yeah, sorta. It's depressingly rare to find desktop motherboards with SFP ports, much less laptops. You

> nearly no one uses it for their home network... yet? Yeah, sorta. It's depressingly rare to find desktop motherboards with SFP ports, much less laptops. You end up converting back to copper anyway. I have a fiber link in my home network, because I was sick of losing wifi routers every time a storm came through. I suspect the cable modem to be allowing badness to sneak in even past the grounding block (which doesn't ground the center pin, of course), so in addition to a UPS with a coax protector, I now also have the whole "outside" of the network isolated (the cable modem and a fiber media converter, on that one UPS, on its own circuit) by a few feet of glass, from the "inside" of the network (another media converter, wifi router, distribution switch, NAS, etc, on another UPS on a different circuit). There's now no electrical path between the cable HFC network and my inner sanctum, and I haven't blown up any more hardware yet!