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Skipping the field-terminated bit, I just grabbed a hunk of preterminated fiber and some dumb media converters. It creates a dielectric gap in my network, so li
by myself248 6y ago
Skipping the field-terminated bit, I just grabbed a hunk of preterminated fiber and some dumb media converters. It creates a dielectric gap in my network, so lightning and surges coming in on the cable modem, can't damage the rest of the network. (I used to fry a wifi router about twice a year during storms, and got sick of replacing them...)
- tux1968 6y agoWouldn't you still blow one of the media converters twice a year?
- snuxoll 6y agoBlown media converter is better than other equipment in your setup getting murdered.
- dboreham 6y agoProbably not because the inputs were previously blown due to either ground shift voltage or EM induced voltage in the long Cat5 run itself. Neither occur with dielectric cable.
- myself248 6y agoBingo. Now the whole cluster associated with the cable modem can rise and fall with it, because there's nothing conductive tying it to a node at a different voltage.