Home fibre

Note: An LLM was not used in writing this article.

I’ll write up my home fibre setup later. I thought it’d be neat to document it here. Still waiting for parts to arrive.

When a Cat6 cable does the job, but I want fibre optic anyway.

Components:

• InvisiLight® EZ-Bend™ Indoor Jumpers, 20m, SC APC, white

  • This 3mm cable is capable of 2.5mm bend radius, is easy to run along a wall and around corners.

• 1m (3ft) Fiber Patch Cable, 1 Fiber, SC APC Simplex to SC APC Simplex, Single Mode (OS2), Riser (OFNR), 2.0mm, Tight-Buffered, Yellow

  • For testing, equivalent to the EZ-Bend one.

• 2x: 1m (3ft) Fiber Patch Cable, 1 Fiber, SC UPC Simplex to SC APC Simplex, Single Mode (OS2), Riser (OFNR), 2.0mm, Tight-Buffered, Yellow

• 2x: SC/APC to SC/APC Simplex Single Mode Fiber Keystone Jack

• Media converters:

  • TP-Link Gigabit WDM Media Converter, Auto-negotiation, TL-FC311B-20
  • TP-Link Gigabit WDM Media Converter, Auto-negotiation, TL-FC311A-20

• Belkin USB-C to 2.5Gb Ethernet Adapter - White

  • For the MacBook, which doesn’t have an RJ45 port