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So basically all a line of fiber switches in the middle of the house and then cat cable to the end consumer wall box? hmm I did play with the thought of a PCIE

So basically all a line of fiber switches in the middle of the house and then cat cable to the end consumer wall box? hmm I did play with the thought of a PCIE fiber cards for the tower, they are expensive but it seems like its the only thing that will for sure work with the least power consumption. Thanks!

Nextgrid 4y ago
Nope, fibre all the way to the wall boxes, with cheap Cat 5 alongside it. Places with high-bandwidth stuff or multiple devices have a switch with an SFP+ port to have the fibre come in and then whatever flavor of Ethernet as outputs (whether 10Gbit over copper, more SFP+ for fibre, or 1Gbit ports if individual devices don't need more than 1Gbit). FYI you can get cheap server-grade 10Gbit cards on eBay, they work fine and have an SFP+ port. 10Gbit SFPs are ~20 bucks on Amazon. Places with low-bandwidth needs can just use the "backup" Cat 5 directly or with cheap Gigabit Ethernet switches, to reduce costs where 1Gbit+ speeds aren't needed (plus you can also reuse the cable for non-Ethernet applications, think alarm sensors, home automation, etc).