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Couldn't you get away with mechanical splices? For short runs like this the extra losses shouldn't matter too much?

• adql 4y ago
  probably ? No idea about details. I guess "just" terminating them would be fine if you just installed it once but at least looking at tutorials it does look like a PITA compared to CAT connectors
  • DannyBee 4y ago
    A lot of tutorials are old. Mechanical splices have improved very quickly in the past 5 years. Talking with my friend who is an home automation installer, he says they now just use mechanical crimp splices and they don't take them longer than, say, prepping and terminating a coax cable. He says it's definitely shorter now than the average time they spend trying to untwist, straighten, and line up wires in a cat connector. They used to use connectors requiring polishes that took 30 minutes
• dale_glass 4y ago
  You can do without splices at all, just fish the cable through the wall with connectors and all. The duplex LC connector can be disassembled, and with a bit of tape to keep things together you can get both fibers through much more easily. If you're lazy, you can just use a premade cable that's longer than you need. A slightly prettier solution is a keystone jack.
• walrus01 4y ago
  mechanical splices should absolutely be avoided if at all possible, we live in the era of $900 made in china core alignment fusion splicers that are not terrible.