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Why switch?
Probably for the sweet, sweet 6GHz.
Yes, the sweet 6Ghz!
Wiring my home with fiber
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Just like there are people who don't care about how good or bad code they write as long as it works. Doesn't mean we should accept or promote this as 'good'.
Aesthetics aren't the same as quality, right? Also, I would say writing bad code makes the code very inaccessible...just like burying important infrastructure in a wall. Did that water leak last year cause mild growth in the wall? Don't know without some demolition! Want to upgrade your piping or electrical? Gotta destroy some wall, hooray, and then do more work to hide it again. Lunacy.
They aren’t the same but are highly correlated. You can have wrong opinions or poor taste.
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#19310 Gbps is really a game changer if you have large quantity of data to transfer (multiple terabytes), but 10G cards and equipment are power hungry so I only put out a dangling fiber one in a while to make a backup but the speed is appreciable.
Also I'm still looking for a solution setup a ~200m link, Ethernet and WLAN are not an option, so I'm only left with fiber, 1Gbps would be sufficient, but I won't be able to do it myself because of the price of a splicer. I thought about asking an installer to do the splicing for me, it shouldn't be that expensive, maybe on day.
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Had a really good experience with FS.com. To the point that we even printed out a picture of their warehouse from google maps and wrote “thank you” on it before stapling it to the wall. They were the best support we received.
Which is why I'm so annoyed that my employer (which happens to be the largest employer in my entire state) mandates a vendor that costs 6x as much and whose products fail much more often.
I'm really out of the game these days so don't know the state of different options, but to be fair, a decade ago I had a team member try and cheap out on modules and it caused a fairly decent mess. Lots of failures, but not just outright failures, but problems where the link would mostly work, but through a bunch of fiber taps and bypass modules produced a high error rates when installed.
So I'm not saying it's right, but I can at least understand where a mandate like that might come from, if perhaps outdated compared to the current state of the industry.
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Not every hobby has to be cost optimized. I’ve spent thousands on climbing equipment that I never took full advantage of. Sometimes people have money to burn and want to do something for the fun of it.
Hobbies are almost by definition not cost optimized!
Some are, like growing your own food or backpacking.
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#197This article is great overall, but there is some stuff you should do differently, if you're wanting to follow in the author's footsteps: 1. Just use UPC connectors everywhere unless you have really good reasons not to. 2. Use single mode fiber (SMF) everywhere, including internal wiring. SMF is infinitely scalable for future needs, multimode (MMF) is not. These days the cost differences for cabling and optics is negl…
Had a really good experience with FS.com. To the point that we even printed out a picture of their warehouse from google maps and wrote “thank you” on it before stapling it to the wall. They were the best support we received.
The new FS-Box is out, allowing reprogramming of most FS transceivers for a one-time $500 cost.
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#198Wiring for me has been a waste of time. I spent a good amount of time wiring the house with cat 6 cabling. I had our TV on a hard wired network which felt great, no drop outs, no wifi noise. I then bought a roku box and left on wifi for a while. Its still on wifi, works great and kept it there. Family mostly uses wifi now, no PCs using the hard-won ethernet jacks.
Ya, my house is wired for cat5 but no point to use it. It just isn’t necessary.
To my surprise, my parents use the Cat5 cables I installed in their house 20+ years go.
In a brick house, wireless isn't a good choice for desktop computers and smart TVs.
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#199I always end up green with envy that people seem to have pre-existing conduits in their walls for running new cables. There's no way, in my old house, of doing this without some invasive smashing in to walls.
> I always end up green with envy that people seem to have pre-existing conduits in their walls for running new cables. There's no way, in my old house, of doing this without some invasive smashing in to walls. I don't own a house and have never owned a house. This will probably sound stupid and I am sorry if this is something obvious. Is it that my spouse will leave me or my parents will disown me if I run a conduit…
I’m an avid DIYer and have no problem buying others’ high-standards DIY work, inspection/permits or no.
If I walked into a listing and saw surface raceway everywhere, I’d only bid what I was comfortable paying leaving room for a gut rehab. It’s evidence of a high level of DGAF at a minimum and likely isn’t the only place that corners were cut.