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Fiber Optics powering my home LAN?
Hello everyone! Here's my setup:
I have a DSL modem from frontier in my home office. That's where its installed, I refuse to move it. across the house, I have a server room. Nothing too fancy. It was part of a remodel at the house, it was previously a joint bathroom and mini bedroom. Only issue here is that there is no cabling run to this room other than electric. Its not worth running phone lines and such to it so we didnt have it done... So, here's what i'm thinking. The server room hosts the Plex server (along with others), all media is at maximum resolution (4K Movies, RAW images, etc, etc). For the longest time, I simply had a range extender on the wall nearest to that of the router/modem combo. This range extender did its job well: it extended the range of my Wi-Fi. The range extender also had a gigabit ethernet port on the bottom of it. I ran this ethernet cable to my 48 port, gigabit switch and done - everything worked for the most part - except the plex server. it just couldnt keep up... it would drop my resolution or buffer constantly. I just got word today that Metronet Fiber will be coming to my house soon and words cannot explain how excited I am for it to be here. 1GB/s up and down! The Representative and tech i met with today said that they will replace all phone lines in my home, not install any new ones, which is a bummer for my server room.
More to come soon ;)
So this means that my office will still be the hub for all connections out into the world... I wish they would install to my server room, but thats not an option. So, heres what I want to do: I know there are "converters" that turn ethernet into fiber. The modem they are going to give me will have 8, 10GBPS ethernet ports on it. I was curious if there was a way for me to use these converters to change one of the ethernet ports to fiber and then run fiber to my server room and then use another
sorry, not another! My switch has fiber options available. there is a little stick thing that has fiber ports (I have no idea what its called. I know alot about tech, but I could not care less about terms). But is this possible? I know it may seem a little overkill, but im really fond of the idea of getting the LAN in my house off wireless onto a wired connection of some sort - hopefully fiber! Thanks y'all!
Also, I know this is absolutely overkill but could I do this for now with my DSL connection? Metronet wont install till March 18th, 2017 so I have time to prepare and I hope to be able to kick the DSL modem out and whip in the new fiber modem
Switch is 10 Gig, range extender is actually just 10/100, not 10/100/1000 like I thought, which is a huge difference... but i still need to move onto truly wired connection here.
Also looking into singlemode fiber, not multimode... correct?
1 Answer
- Tracy LLv 75 years ago
If you have ethernet running through the house you can use one pair for DSL. In many houses these days all telephone and ethernet outlets are all ethernet lines. It is not that hard to have a wire run, just run one.
Yes there are indeed fiber to ethernet convertors and even ethernet to fiber. In fact MOST if not all of the outlets on fiber lines run to your home will be ethernet connections. No servers should be connected by wifi, wifi is all 1/2 duplex vs full duplex for any ethernet.
You do know that 1Gig ethernet is just a fast a 1 Gig fiber and much cheaper to run.
