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Re: To Run Fibre or To Not Run Fibre


  • Subject: Re: To Run Fibre or To Not Run Fibre
  • From: "Chris Bond" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 07:03:13 -0000

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "David Millard" <david@o...> wrote:
> An amazing opportunity has become available to me, that being to
build
> my own home which will hopefully be started within 2 months. I
intend to
> run dozens of Cat 5e, coax for CCTV and speaker cabling but I am
also
> wondering about running fibre and if I do run fibre what sort I
should
> be looking to run. I know there is lots of knowledge on the forum
and
> I'm hoping to make use of it during this project.
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Fibre is great for connecting your switches->switches running at full
fabric (oblessly your switches would need to support this).

Node0 Computer->Computer but as you probably wont be sending vasts
amount of traffic between computers cat6 is probably the way to go. I
myself if I was doing a self build would make sure its decent cat5e
pref cat6 in this day and age as gigabit network is becoming standard
slowly but surely.




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