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[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Do yourself a favor and drop fiber at the same time. That's my plan for whenever I get around to crawling in the attic.

[–] binomialchicken@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Is fiber really worth the extra complexity and expense? It's strength is in longer distances with mostly straight runs. When you are doing short distances with multiple turns, copper is much easier and more forgiving. Splicing fiber is difficult if something breaks during or after installation, on top of the expense and skill needed for proper termination. Tools and hardware for copper are cheap, easy to use, and ubiquitous.

[–] Chriswild@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I agree and really you can replace the copper with fiber by tying an end and pulling.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It really isn't any more complex, and the price of it has dropped significantly. Plus, you don't have to terminate the fiber, just pull it.

[–] foggenbooty@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I'm still not sure I see the need for it with copper twisted pair now being able to do over 10Gbps reliably. However I can't fault you for future proofing. I always say pull the best copper you can, and extra of it since it's easier to do all at once than again later.

[–] Trollception@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Why would you drop fiber when you can do 10gbps on ethernet at the distances most cabling would be in a home. Never would consider to run fiber and I just finished a couple of new cat7 drops in my home.

We have the luxury of having 1, 2.5, 10 and 25 gigabit fiber to the home but I haven't considered even 2.5 until the services I use can leverage it

Future proofing. Fiber is cheap, so why not?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My city is rolling out fiber in a year or two, so I'll have to ask them how that works, because I'd like to plan out where they drop it.

[–] Trollception@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They don't drop it in your home most likely. In our home it's a box on the side of the house with the modem and they ran cat5 to our media panel in the garage.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ours will support >1gbit (up to 10gbit allegedly), so they probably won't run cat5, but hopefully they don't get lazy and just run cat6 or cat6a and actually run a fiber link to the house.

[–] Zeroc00l@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

All the ONT boxes I've seen in houses have fiber directly to the box.