If you get the chance, always run more extra network fiber cabling
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Re: If you get the chance, always run more extra network fiber cabling
#2> Some of the time this fiber failure is (probably) because a raccoon got into your machine room
Or into your handhole/vault, along with her babies:
https://old.reddit.com/r/FiberOptics/comments/1ji3rrt/its_no...
Re: If you get the chance, always run more extra network fiber cabling
#3As the article says, this is true for just about any cabling, copper, power, etc.
I’ve done cabling in two houses and I’ve never had too much. I’m always finding reasons to run more to new places.
Re: If you get the chance, always run more extra network fiber cabling
#4Yup, always run extra everything. At least you can splice fiber now. And be careful of the minimum bend radius.
Once, in the 90s, we were having intermittent network failures in our data center. I kept trying to troubleshoot it with the fluke, but the problem kept moving. When I pulled up the raised floor, I discovered that rats were eating the exterior sheath of the network cables. That was some fun troubleshooting!
Re: If you get the chance, always run more extra network fiber cabling
#5As the article says, this is true for just about any cabling, copper, power, etc. I’ve done cabling in two houses and I’ve never had too much. I’m always finding reasons to run more to new places.
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Re: If you get the chance, always run more extra network fiber cabling
#6I left one small room in my new home without network cabling, finished just before covid. Guess where my home office ended up being located...
Re: If you get the chance, always run more extra network fiber cabling
#7Regarding single mode vs multi-mode ... other than cost, is there any reason at all to run multi-mode fiber in 2025? I was under the impression that single mode was better in basically every way.
Re: If you get the chance, always run more extra network fiber cabling
#81. High-level, the post is all wrong. The point should be that you always need to make sure you can pull new cable. The poster illustrates this: single mode, multi mode, non-fiber, etc, etc. And if one "goes bad", you still can't run a new one, unless you have a pullstring.
2. The post cannot apply to fast/large networks - will be prohibitively expensive.
3. If running a few at home, I suggest to run MTP/MPO. It's basically a structured cable that can have around 12 fibers in them, plenty of future expansion.
Though I'll always run a large awg >>cat6 everywhere so it supports PoE++
Re: If you get the chance, always run more extra network fiber cabling
#9Originally thought this was excessive, but at least 4 per outlet/room. Saves buying a bunch of smaller switches.
1 for a switch (Although VLans can help) 1 for telephony if required 1 for media devices / peripherals 1 extra
Optional fun use of HDMI over ethernet for more runs.
Behind TVs, you can break it down, or just run a bunch of runs.
Re: If you get the chance, always run more extra network fiber cabling
#10Yup, always run extra everything. At least you can splice fiber now. And be careful of the minimum bend radius. Once, in the 90s, we were having intermittent network failures in our data center. I kept trying to troubleshoot it with the fluke, but the problem kept moving. When I pulled up the raised floor, I discovered that rats were eating the exterior sheath of the network cables. That was some fun troubleshooting!
_minimum_ bend?