Renovation and wifi vs cat

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Alucidnation

16,810 posts

169 months

Wednesday 20th September 2017
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In your opinion.

Installing fibre has made a massive difference to throughput.

I appreciate it isn't for everyone but it will become the norm in the near future.

There is no point installing cat 6 either if it isn't done correctly.



Oh, and it wasn't an attempt.

Aaaaaaaaanyway, as you were.


NorthDave

2,355 posts

231 months

Wednesday 20th September 2017
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Alucidnation said:
Installing fibre has made a massive difference to throughput.
Throughput of what? Most people in a residential scenario want to be able to stream TV and get on-line. I guess the odd super user might have a NAS and backup files locally. Given your internet connection is almost guaranteed to be slower than your LAN I'm intrigued by the throughput comment. Many many corporate offices run on copper (at least client to switch).

I'm not having a go by the way - I do this professionally and can't work out why fiber is better for a DIY install.

Andehh

7,107 posts

205 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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Alucidnation said:
I installed fibre in my place.
Alucidnation said:
In your opinion.

Installing fibre has made a massive difference to throughput.

I appreciate it isn't for everyone but it will become the norm in the near future.

There is no point installing cat 6 either if it isn't done correctly.
For obvious reasons, you know what I must do now.....call you out on a custard test! I will so happily apologies & crawl back under my rock if you can actually show Fibre Installs in your property. Not only have I never seen it before (so genuinely curious)....but also my previous post regarding your trolling.



As for CAT6 - even when not installed 100% to spec, you can still run HDMI over a single cable really cheaply & easily. Something you cannot do with CAt5e. So yes, it *IS* worth installing it even if not ran 100% to spec. You won't achieve maximum capabilities with it - but it does still come with tangible benefits.

Mr Pointy

11,147 posts

158 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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Alucidnation said:
Installing fibre has made a massive difference to throughput.
I don't understand how using fibre can make a 'massive difference' in a domestic environment. Can you explain further? Are you using fibre switch ports to connect everything?

Any wired domestic device (& the majority of commercial/industrial/broadcast ones) will have at best a Gigabit ethernet port so if you're running fibre & converting it you won't see any improvement. If you've put a fibre card in a PC, another one in your server/NAS & are using a fibre switch then yes you would see an improvement but that's very far from a domestic arrangement.

Steve_W

1,486 posts

176 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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Just a quick post to thank those who gave pointers to decent suppliers - appreciated.

mr_tony

Original Poster:

6,328 posts

268 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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Likewise - thanks all. Useful input all around.