Mastodawn

Just patched a long fiber link, which would've absolutely _sucked_ to get CAT.7 cable through.
The steel-armored OS2 cable is cheap and super robust/easy to work with. The LC connectors are even smaller than the hole for CAT.7 would've been.

This is nice \o/

What I want to say is: Don't be afraid of fiber for DIY networking people, it's awesome and often muuuch better than copper cable!

I also didn't have to do any annoying LSA+ terminations or crimps and the link will do 10G+ easily :)

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anne.💫2d ago

@manawyrm I've been curious about trying this once I actually make a permanent cable run to my tinker shop...what equipment did you use for either end of the cable? :)

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Manawyrm | Sarah 1d ago

@ann3nova

No-name china 1270nm/1330nm SMF BiDi SFP transceivers (12$ on Amazon)

One side is my regular big Ethernet switch, which already had some SFP ports.
The other side is a TP-Link SFP media converter (also 15$).

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@manawyrm @ann3nova Was about to say… if you use bidi, you can get some really cheap and armored yet reasonably flexible fibers from china that are superduper thin with a connector that fits through fairly small holes. Just ordered some for a project and they were en-par with prices for decent cat7 copper cable.