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My impression is that a fiber installation will have legs and take you a few decades. Of course, we've been wrong many times before. But in any case, fiber rem
by Clamchop 3y ago
My impression is that a fiber installation will have legs and take you a few decades. Of course, we've been wrong many times before.
But in any case, fiber remains impractical, expensive, and power-hungry.
- kalleboo 3y ago> fiber remains impractical, expensive, and power-hungry Depends on what you're comparing it to - if you're looking for 10 Gbit, then copper is probably going to be worse, at least on power
- amluto 3y agoI think a bunch of this is off. Single mode fiber is cheap, it’s been around for a long time, and as far as I know, even old single mode fiber supports modern standards just fine. (There have been improvements in tolerance to bending and in performance at extreme bandwidths far, far in excess of anything in your house.) Single mode fiber transceivers are now cheap and use less power than 10GigE copper, but until recently they were expensive. Multimode fiber comes in OM1, OM2, OM3, OM4, and OM5, and the older variants don’t get amazing speeds by modern standards. Copper takes quite a bit of power at faster speeds.