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Old 06-27-2008, 10:46 PM
 
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Anyone have fiber optic cable in their home? I have two fiber optic cables at each of my multimedia jacks - 2 fiber, 2 rg-6, & 2 Cat5E. I have the rg-6 cables and Cat5E trimmed out, but I haven't had my fiber trimmed out.

How difficult is it to trim out fiber optic jacks? I already have room in my multimedia plate to allow for the two fiber jacks.

Do you think I can get AT&T to trim it out if I get U-verse? I was able to get Time Warner to trim out my RG6 calbes and Cat5E.
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Old 06-27-2008, 10:47 PM
 
Location: Wiesbaden, Germany
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fibre is hard to do on your own and requires special tools plus a scope to make sure it looks good. I'd definitely beg someone else to do it for you..
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Old 06-28-2008, 12:05 AM
 
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I use Fiber in my audio. I love DTS.
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Old 06-28-2008, 07:06 AM
 
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I can think of some interesting ideas of utilizing that on your LAN (e.g. multiplexing various A/V signals throughout your home, fibre channel, etc.) but insofar as uVerse, it'll still be POTS/DSL copper carrying the signal on the last mile so no improvement will be gained from your Fiber in that regard.
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Old 06-28-2008, 08:53 AM
 
Location: West Creek
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I use fiber for lighting purposes. cuts the energy bills! I use side glow cables and I've routed them to the outside. On spots where the sun hits the feeders best.
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Old 06-28-2008, 10:40 AM
 
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Does anyone here actually have a 10gigabit networking running at home?
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Old 06-28-2008, 11:27 AM
 
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10 Gb? not at home.. We have it at work, but it's all FC and that's not cheap. We also have 2 Gb iSCSI, that might be a better solution for home use. Still crazy fast speeds, what would you need it for? and I know it's always better to be as fast as possible, but for me the cost increase isn't worth it. My wireless does video just fine.
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Old 06-28-2008, 11:58 AM
 
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10 Gb? not at home.. We have it at work, but it's all FC and that's not cheap. We also have 2 Gb iSCSI, that might be a better solution for home use. Still crazy fast speeds, what would you need it for? and I know it's always better to be as fast as possible, but for me the cost increase isn't worth it. My wireless does video just fine.
Well 1Gb should be doable over Cat5e. So if people are talking about Fiber around here I figured they must be doing something cool.

What type of wireless are you using? Do you have a wireless media center?
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Old 06-28-2008, 01:59 PM
 
Location: Wiesbaden, Germany
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I'm still just doing G, but my router is N capable. I have way too many computers/toys on the network to even mention how many, so switching them over to N would be kinda expensive..
FC is very fast though. We were doing a test on ours at work when it was first built and it would transfer 1.5 Gb files in about 1/5 second. The main storage is a NetApp SAN that runs FC exclusively on its tier one storage. I'd love to have one in my house, but just the cards alone are over $1000...
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Old 06-28-2008, 10:37 PM
 
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When my track home was built I figured I would go all out and run a bundled 2rg6, 2cat5e and 2 fiber lines. The material for 500 feet was only $500. Not to mention that the builder wanted to charge $110 for each line of rg6 and cat5e. So I made a deal with the installer and told him not to use their wire...and use mine . I ran most of it myself, but the installer ran it to the first floor.

I figure I would use the fiber someday. Any ideas on what I could do with it ?
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