10gb Fibre Networking Completed!

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I have a thread here, that I will post a link to this thread to, but didn’t want to resurrect a thread that didn’t really give an indication that it was about the completion…

tl;dr - I got 10gb fibre to my home, and the total cost was £1,250 or about $1,550 USD.

However, I am still a switch short for the last connection point (living room) and will likely have to spend about £200-£400 depending on whether I go 6E WIFI or not.

I had fibre cabling routed through my home (by an electrician) - and he did all the trunking down the walls, drilling to the loft, even provided a “double plug” box to terminate the cable I have to buy a “double gang brush plate” - but those were like cheap as chips and arriving tomorrow.

He could not terminate the fibre cables, but I bought pre-terminated cables - thanks to the advice I received in the thread above. Total cost was £250 ($315) - two guys half a day to run 4 cables and sundries like trunking etc.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0932GQ167?ref_=pe_27063361_487360311_302_E_DDE_dt_1

£114 ($143)

I got 4 of those cables and also had to buy 8 of these:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B013WFH7C8/ref=pe_27063361_485629781_TE_item

£122 ($153)

Yes, the modules cost more than the cabling, which is 100gb at 30 metres…

They all go from this device…

https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-JetStream-TL-SX3008F-Anschlüsse-montierbar/dp/B0966TBVC4/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=tp-link+TL-sx3008f&sr=8-1

£215.99 ($270.90)

Into the loft and distributed to 4 different places:

  1. Office,
  2. Server Room
  3. Bedroom
  4. Living Space

In the office the cables go straight into a:

https://www.amazon.com/QNAP-QSW-M408-2C-Managed-Switch-Gigabit/dp/B08DKBVJP3

£330 ($415)

I have a 10gb desktop enabled machine so that goes straight to the 10gb port, it is also important to note that I live on this machine…

In the bedroom they run to a Zylex:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0842SWN2X/ref=pe_27063361_485629781_TE_item

£124.99 ($157.49)

Because the items in the bedroom are limited to 1gb anyway - if I get anything in there likely to be 2.5gb at most for awhile and the Zylex has a couple of 2.5gb ports.

Final Item was:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/QNAP-QSW-M408S-Managed-Gigabit-Unmanaged/dp/B08DJWZ6VJ

£257.82 ($324)

Which terminates in the server room, where I needed just two 2 SFP+ connections and a fibre input connection.

Results?

I now have at my desktop from Fibre internet:

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I do not know why the upload speeds are so bad, it should be 1gb.

In the bedroom, I have a similar download speed, but 900+ upload speed to - so not sure on that one will require some investigation.

Using iPerf3 to the server - honestly seems a bit hit and miss…from the desktop:

7.00 GBytes
5.08 GBytes
7.20 GBytes
6.83 GBytes
6.15 Gbytes
6.04 GBytes
6.43 GBytes

So not sure why that isn’t better…or why it fluctuates so much but that is like 10 x what I was getting before, so not going to get snotty about it.

One interesting thing was that this was all plug and play…

I use this as my router for the incoming fibre internet:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-RT-AX89X-supporting-Technology-AiProtection/dp/B08L7HK9K2

I used the SFP+ port on the AX89X to go to the TP-Link Device - from there to the QNAP and Zylex devices via the fibre cables - absolutely no issues at all…just worked straight out of the box.

So there you go, it is possible to do - doesn’t seem to have completely broken the bank to do it - though it obviously isn’t cheap - but costs less than a Graphics Card these days…and I needed 4 locations - if you just want one or two locations, that price would be a lot less.

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I’m interested why you opted for OM1 and not at least OM3 or OM4. Around these parts (USA) OM4 is now pretty much the same price as OM3

Also, you paid 114 pounds for fiber? Next time checkout FS.com, pretty sure they sell to the UK

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I didn’t, it is 30 metres of 100gb cable - but the link defaults to OM1 - the stuff I ordered was £28 each, and is OM4.

This is what I ordered:

FLYPROFiber 30m/98ft OM4 LC to LC Fiber Patch Cable | Length Options: 0.5m-100m, 40GB/100GB Duplex LC-LC 50/125um Multimode Fiber Optic Cable Cord LSZH 30Meter(98ft)

Also FS is $39.00 for that cable which is £31 which is £3 more expensive than Amazon. I didn’t check the FS uk website.

Checked it now £44 inc VAT for that exact cable…

As far as I can tell it is the same cable - maybe it is different in some way?

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Ah that makes sense. For a moment I thought you overpaid for a bunch of OM1!

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Went the opposite direction to be honest, nothing I have can max out the speed on those cables - which I believe are rated to 100gb, but I didn’t really want to have to reroute cables in 5-years when 40gb equipment for consumers is at a reasonable price.

For 100gb stuff to become consumer friendly in pricing and I can max out the cables…I suspect that will be awhile!

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That is why I run all Single Mode unless I have a specific application that requires MM on 50u or 62.5u.

The cost difference on the optics hardly matters between Single and multi modes.

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I thought single mode was more expensive as it was used for longer distances?

This was from the thread I link above where I was seeking guidance and assistance.

  • Single mode fiber is used for very long runs (many kilometers), and is more expensive, multi mode fiber is used for runs up to 300M and depending on the max speed supported (1-10-40-100GBit) you have different OMx ratings, OM4 is what you want if you want to deploy fiber that will support up to 100Gbit/s otherwise OM3 will do 10, probably 25Gbit/s

I checked it out and the only cable I can see that is single mode - on a couple of sites - is OS2 which is good for 1g/10gb but no more than that.

It was cheaper, but it is also slower?

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OS2 doesn’t have a upper limit yet. It’s that future proof.

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Interesting, I was using this image from the sale page on Amazon:

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But looking on FS states that it is good up to 400gb so that is good to know!

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In the 1 to 10gb range, yes in the 40 to 100gb range single mode transceiver are way more expensive, like 100 vs 500 dollars a piece

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makes sense, I never really have to deal with the pricing in that range.