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I'm in the middle of running fiber in my house as well but much less elaborate than OP. I bought a few 100m MPO terminated cables off eBay, a few MPO to LC splitters from FS.com and a few 100m capable optics from eBay and fs.com. All my switches have sfp ports so it was pretty straight forward
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The uk is behind most of europe. Even east eu countries have fiber to a significant chunk of the population now, and west is doing great. In france i get 5Gb/1.2Gb for 49 euros. Switzerland is even better. When i sold routers to businesses they would always be gigabit fiber available, so much that i had stopped checking. That said 25Gb is a lot outside of switzerland.
> Even east eu countries have fiber to a significant chunk of the population now Yes, “even” the barbarians of east europe have it. In romania you get around 10 gbps per second for roughly 10 euros a month from what i hear, and pretty much everyone has fiber. I believe Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia are doing great as well.
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That would only works if the other end can push 25gbps as well. I wonder what's the maximum throughput of various cloud storage services commonly used for off site backups (S3, B2, etc). Would they artificially limit the max bandwidth or allow you to go as fast as possible?
I've had trouble saturating my 1 Gbps connection in Sweden. I did tests with B2 and Wasabi roughly every quarter for a couple of years trying to see if it was feasible to move some data hoarding activities there, and never got more than ≈100 Mbps when downloading from them. Don't know if it's still the case, or if my ISP was to blame (or just being in EU/Sweden). On the other hand, I don't have a problem maxing out 1…
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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.
If you’re the largest employer in the state, there may be some personal implications to a CIO telling a major OEM to f-off.
Nice read, and great work on the terminations. I did an extensive amount of both fiber and CAT6A in my recent house build, totally about 21 miles together. I did a mixture of single mode and multimode only because of some AV device support for multimode, and because all of it was so cheap compared to the labor and time. I ended up with significant fiber runs between the MDF and IDF closets, the server room, and all o…
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> Even east eu countries have fiber to a significant chunk of the population now Yes, “even” the barbarians of east europe have it. In romania you get around 10 gbps per second for roughly 10 euros a month from what i hear, and pretty much everyone has fiber. I believe Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia are doing great as well.
Peering outside of Romania might be questionable. I visited a few months ago and got 500Mbps within the country and just 50Mbps to my server in The Netherlands.
Nice read, and great work on the terminations. I did an extensive amount of both fiber and CAT6A in my recent house build, totally about 21 miles together. I did a mixture of single mode and multimode only because of some AV device support for multimode, and because all of it was so cheap compared to the labor and time. I ended up with significant fiber runs between the MDF and IDF closets, the server room, and all o…
Was trying to figure out where I heard your name before, sounds so familiar. Then it hit me. PDX Tuning. Small world.
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 live in a split level. The company I hired flat out refused to do a cat6 drop to my upstairs office, after spending nearly 40 minutes getting wire up a single story.
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I agree it isn't rocket science, but plastering if one of those things best left to professionals, much more so than plumbing or electrical for instance. They usually make near minimum wage, are just so much faster and produce a better result. I've started plastering a few of my walls and after wasting a couple days doing a few square meters ended up hiring a couple guys to do the rest of the house. There is just no…
It just take practice, my first try was not perfect but acceptable, the second time was much better and the third on a larger wall with lots of defects looks good, but I probably spent too much time on it, although I am confident that I can now do it much faster.
Of course if I do something enough I can get good at it, the point of hiring someone is because I am not going to do it enough to get good at it.