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…
£215.99 ($270.90)
Into the loft and distributed to 4 different places:
- Office,
- Server Room
- Bedroom
- 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:
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.