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For home use, fiber links from your main cabinet to distributed switches, then copper from switches to outlets makes a lot of sense. Easier to do. Cheaper. Let
by ethbr1 3y ago
For home use, fiber links from your main cabinet to distributed switches, then copper from switches to outlets makes a lot of sense.
Easier to do. Cheaper. Lets you leverage copper's strengths (physical abuse & high speeds over short runs). And future proof in the sense that switches and copper can be replaced later if/when deemed necessary.
And there's really only a few uses that need >250MB/s on a single port. It's the aggregated links that push over.
I feel like "install the fastest physical link possible" has always lost out to "make it easy to install a not-yet-existent future faster link" over the long term.
- zrail 3y agoThis is exactly what I did last summer. 10Gb fiber backbone between big switches, copper fans out from those to devices. I don't really need that much bandwidth but it's nice to have transfer faster than spinning rust write speed between my primary and backup storage servers. For what it's worth, my reasoning had more to do with line noise and lightning isolation than bandwidth. I'm connecting between multiple "buildings" (two sides of my duplex-ish house and my shed) via buried 2" PVC conduit. Fiber means I don't have to worry about ground loops or static charge or lightning-induced faults.