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anybody tried fiber network / hubs at home ?
by agumonkey 2mo ago
anybody tried fiber network / hubs at home ?
- PunchyHamster 2mo agoI put some fiber in the walls just in case but there are not really many cases for this to be worth just yet
- simoncion 2mo agoI have a 10gbit LAN running over fiber with Mikrotik switches and cheapo Intel NICs. Works fine, and it makes remote disks quite a bit nicer than when they are over 1gbit.
- toast0 2mo agoIt works, but kind of inconvenient for things that aren't desktops... or you need a switch with sfp to act as a media converter everywhere you have devices. And I have cat5 in my walls that was installed 25 years ago (way before it was my house)... That gets me to 10g everywhere I tried, so no reason to pull anything else.
- agumonkey 2mo agofair point
- martinald 2mo agoThe switches are very cheap though. I put fibre in my house (simply because the cable is far far thinner and easier to retrofit under carpets etc). I got a few 2.5Gbit switches which have 4 2.5Gbit ethernet ports and 2 10Gbit SPF+, they cost around $30 off AliExpress. I don't actually have any devices with 10gigE but it's not a huge amount more for 10gig ones (and no doubt will get a lot cheaper with the new lower power 10gige chips).