Comment on Wi-Fi 7 Signals the Industry’s New Priority: Stability
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 months agoExactly. I’m going to be running Ethernet through my house soon, and even if we stay full Wi-Fi, we’ll benefit by having physical cables connecting the APs. I already have a separate AP, just need to run the cables to get a second in our basement where the signal is weak.
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 8 months ago
Do yourself a favor and drop fiber at the same time. That’s my plan for whenever I get around to crawling in the attic.
binomialchicken@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Is fiber really worth the extra complexity and expense? It’s strength is in longer distances with mostly straight runs. When you are doing short distances with multiple turns, copper is much easier and more forgiving. Splicing fiber is difficult if something breaks during or after installation, on top of the expense and skill needed for proper termination. Tools and hardware for copper are cheap, easy to use, and ubiquitous.
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 8 months ago
It really isn’t any more complex, and the price of it has dropped significantly. Plus, you don’t have to terminate the fiber, just pull it.
foggenbooty@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m still not sure I see the need for it with copper twisted pair now being able to do over 10Gbps reliably. However I can’t fault you for future proofing. I always say pull the best copper you can, and extra of it since it’s easier to do all at once than again later.
Chriswild@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I agree and really you can replace the copper with fiber by tying an end and pulling.
Trollception@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Why would you drop fiber when you can do 10gbps on ethernet at the distances most cabling would be in a home. Never would consider to run fiber and I just finished a couple of new cat7 drops in my home.
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 8 months ago
Future proofing. Fiber is cheap, so why not?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
My city is rolling out fiber in a year or two, so I’ll have to ask them how that works, because I’d like to plan out where they drop it.
Trollception@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They don’t drop it in your home most likely. In our home it’s a box on the side of the house with the modem and they ran cat5 to our media panel in the garage.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Ours will support >1gbit (up to 10gbit allegedly), so they probably won’t run cat5, but hopefully they don’t get lazy and just run cat6 or cat6a and actually run a fiber link to the house.