1. If you have a big house and lightning strikes are a threat, optics will give you a lot of peace of mind for isolating different network segments. 2. You can do single fiber LC connectors, using "bidi" tranceiver.

Nice video, one note on single mode vs multimode, single can support more than one wavelength and is commonly used for exactly that. Todays systems can support 192 channels

Take a shot every time he picks up the fiberoptic cable.

Awesome video! Thanks for sharing all this useful information on fibre it will make my eventual upgrade much easier ! Cheers !

Really great video! Thank you for creating it! Helped me so much!

Great Video!! Thanks for sharing, I'm currently investigating on putting in fiber in my home. super usefull!!

I'm just starting out on my fiber home networking project, and am so glad I found your video. You explain the requirements clearly, and I learned a lot. Many thanks!

Nice video. As with MM vs SM then I went for SM as more future proof option. Transceivers are more expensive, but cables are usable at every length without 100 meter limit. One thing to consider inside a house is that rodents do have some strange need to nibble these cable coating. It may render patch cables useless at some point. Also, by building code the patch cable use may be wrong anyway, but who cares at your own house...

i would love to have more information on where you put those cables, did you route them in pipes or just laying bare on the isolation on the ceilings ?

nice video!!! question...is it possible to split the cables in two and then pull the cables one by one through the conduit?

I've made the jump to fiber as well after more than a decade with 1Gbit, go straight to 100Gbit and some devices running on 25Gbit, 10Gbit and old stuff on 1 Gbit. Mikrotik has very affordable switches that do the job. Nowadays with NVME, each device can easily transfer 10Gbyte per second, so 100Gbit is not that fast compared to those NVME devices.

Great content. Cardio is life.

Thank. Whats the Keystone you used for these?

Not correct where you said single mode will only take one wave length. Single mode can handle multiple wavelengths, you can also combine multiple wavelengths into one fiber and separate them on the other end, this is generally used for under sea cables where the distance and quality of fiber would make it unreasonable to run 1 strand for every 100Gbps of the multi terabit capacity, one of the cables I've seen had 4 strands and could do about 7Tbps. Basically single mode will allow a given wavelength to only travel in one path, this stops the high vs low light pulses from blending into a continuously on light.

I guess im a little confused. How do you get a client device like a PC, Smart tv to get a fiber connection? I guess i can understand getting a fiber cars for a pc, but how do you do that for a smart tv?

You have a link to those fiber keystone adapters? I can't find them on FS by using the searchbar.

Why use a patch bay for the fiber connections? Is there any advantage to it vs just plugging your cables in directly? Is there any downside to using the patch bay?

The video I have seen yet brother I have seen many videos of mkhbhd and other KZfaqrs but this takes the cake it’s a dream setup for me 😍 keep the great 👍🏽 work

Can you use OM3 fiber in an application that currently uses OM1 & OM2 as long as there is a patch panel between the different types of cable? I was sent the wrong cable and trying to figure out if I can still use it?

My hero.

100 Gbe fiber reasonably priced, switches and router will cost more then your home. Just yanking your chain as I know you are testing limits. I have 10 Gbe on a couple of drops and is overkill for me for home use. Very rarely would I even saturate a 1 Gbe network for any length of time for home use. As my Wife always asks me “What is your purpose for doing this?” as I have a blank stare with no logical answer. LOL.

Is the jacket rated for in-wall/airspace installation?

Awesome! Did you have to pull the cable any special way? I'm doing something similar but I'm worried about how hard a tug.

One time at work I was tracing a fibre line and I was really tired, I looked directly down the fibre tracer. Which is extremely bright compared to normal data light levels so you can visually see which is your fibre. Bloody blinded myself for 5 minutes.

SOme great cheap 2nd hand high speed SFP style PCIe boards and tranceivers can be had off ebay or similar sites to make a 100Gbit connection. ALSO SWITCHES!!! Keep this in mind if you haven't bought yet and don't have a generous sponsor :D Good on you for taking the step and thanks for sharing :). I've been running 10GBe over Cat5e in my home. PC-> server with no switch just for straight file access and it does well enough as I can't hit wire speed anyway with only 7 HDD in RAID6.

I don't have fiber optic internet in my area, just coax runs. Can I still use fiber cable for my home office setup, if I have the equipment for it?

What a time to be alive

Did you use the Cisco flavour transceivers for the Unifi switches?

Well done, thank you. IMHO one should always wear protective goggles when dealing with fiber while lit instead of just "looking away"

What about fiber optic suppressors? When to use it? How choose the right one?

Honestly splicing OM4 fibre is easy, done loads.

Great video ❤. But why are you breathing so heavily and kind of short on your breath? Please check with your doctor that everything’s OK.

Highly detailed video

how much for bi-directional?

Family issues are in the way of me completing my video sets of the same (though I'm going OS2 rather than OM4). In fact, I haven't even watched this yet. Wiring for 25 just seems obvious to me and I'm glad someone is making that case. I was going to go full 10G UTP/RJ45, but I'm rather over that plan aside from POE. The stuff that needs 10 can use 25, and will be even happier at multiples of that in the future.

i was having compatibility issues with intel and mikrotik using DAC cable. fiber with the appropriate transceivers fixed that.

Nice. I am not sure I would ever have use for this much speed in my home. But, it looks like it is terry easy to implement. We already use all Ubiquity switches and security gear.

What’s the plan when you have a guest staying? Does it all get shut down?! 😮 Especially now with the 42u rack!

The ultimate nerds dream 😍

I use FS for a lot of cable, connectors.

Very interesting. Already knew most of the stuff, but always refreshing to hear the explanation again, especially for SM/MM difference. But... A 25Gb uplink to your PC... Respect for that. Just wondering what storage setup are you using in the serverrack to be able to saturate such a link? Even with SSD's you would max out at 5Gbps for sequential reads, unless you set it up in specific RAID modes (RAID 10 e.g.) to allow parallel reads on different disks, but that would cost a ton of money if you want some serious storage volume. (Guess now you are going to tell me you are using U.2 or NVME drives of 4TB in a RAID 10 setup ;-) ). In any case: very good video (as usual) in explaining how to use fibre in the house. I am only having 10G connectivity in the serverrack itself, rest is 1Gb throughout the house and I am at a point that I actually saturate 1Gbps when moving data to the NAS... For me a 10G upgrade using fibre would already be a serious stepup One additional note with regards to the laserlight (and this is for everyone starting to work with fibre optics): - Visibility of the light: --->only multimode laserlight is visible with the naked eye (850 nm in most cases), you'll see 5 red dots. Avoid trying to look into it directly as advised in de video --->When using single mode SFP's, light will not be visible. Never try to look into laserlight which is Single Mode as it will damage your eyes definitively, especially for speeds of 10Gb/s and higher (quite powerful). You cannot see the light anyway as the wave length is outside the visible spectrum (1310 nanometres) I do know it is common that people look straight to the connectors to check if light is coming out. DOn't. There's cheap tools to check if the patch is broken or not (50$ max): you can plug them onto the fibre connector and they shoot a lightbeam through the fibre which is dispersed at the ends (in most cases red) if the patch is OK. If it is not OK, the light will come out of the plastic at the place where the fibre is broken

The way this guy talks puts me on edge so much. I'd love to see him as a guest suspect on one of those CSI shows. He just looks so guilty for no reason. 🤣🤣

Not sure if you're aware, but if you have a network card with multi-transceiver ports, you can combine fiber connections into a single one, thereby increasing bandwidth. This also provides a redundant connection for added reliability. You got to remember these cables have glass inside and as the sayin' goes "Glass is Glass and Glass will break".

great video I learned way more then I thought I didn't know companies like to lock down their products with specific connectors which shouldn't be legal and I didn't know a light goes through it even before its connected to everything.

The explanation is a little bit wrong for the SM/MM difference. As the name already says, in the SM fiber only a single mode of light is put through it. In MM it's multiple. It has nothing to do with different wavelenghts.

Don’t look at the date, nice “sprookje” hahahhahahahahah

so i wonder, i have an "old house" (not really THAT old but one of the main electricians was, hardly an expert ion his job) so i'm plagued with a house that has very small conduits to make new cable travel. Anyway, i wanted to modernize data transfer in my home to reach more rooms with a direct cable output instead of only relying on wifi or powerlines; since i have small diameter conduits, passing duplex premade cables (dont wanna buy or rent a fusion machine to make my own) is basically impossible, so i was looking at the single mode ones; on various pages it says it can deliver up to 100gb in km of distance, but everywere i go searching for a video of someone that has made a fiber cabling, it's always a multimode cable so i started to wonder, is single mode not possible?

Oops @01:49, optical fiber has an incredibly HIGH signal to noise ratio...

My RJ45 works just fine.

My old boss. bought the old house of the old CEO house of Motorola! it was full of FIBER ❤!!!

1 tb server in house but still 1 gb out only with nas and sas hdd. sas 12-14gb speed. 100gb server switch. lovely LIke

You refer to "ethernet cable" for "category" copper cable, I'm sure it's a language shortcut ;-) But actually in your fiber it is also ethernet signal :)

01:50 Shouldn't that be a *high* signal-to-noise ratio?

I prefer to stare right into the fiber laser for the enhanced thinking speed

haha, great thumbnail!

well. that looks easy, i did my houses 4 of ‘em in om3 and lc ends that i had to put on myself, man did it get expensive fast like 300 for a huge reel of om3 fiber cable ,120 for 12 lc ends needed double that so 240, needed 500 worth of switches 200 of sfp modules, never doing it again

I wanted to hit the like button - but it is at a clean 666. I will leave it as is.

100GBASE-SR4 uses 4 pairs of MMF cables so it’s a bit misleading to say “OM4 can handle a 100 Gbit connection”. The connectors are different too so you’d need to rerun the cables.

Did you start with a dark fiber network or do you have a Mainstream TeleCommunications company for the "lighted network"?

Our network guy who came to install cables for our office wanted to run cat5 .. It's a pet peeve of mine.. why would you want to limit yourself like that!? I know that 8bit guy on youtube got cat5 for his shed.. It upset me so much when I found out, and it's not even my place lol.

it is not hard to do a fusion splicing, it's expensive, yes, but hard it is not, well, maybe for someone who hasn't done fiber work before it might seem hard, but the process is straight forward

Building in 2023 what will be the best wire in the house? Cat6? .. Cat?? or Fiber? of course for a typical owner. Love all your Videos! Learning everyday something new.

100gbe is faster than the fastest nvme, so I'm wondering, what do you do in your house?

Love fiber, but I hate how sloppy it always looks.

You make great videos! Just hope you're doing alright health wise cuz that breathing kept distracting me ngl 😅

I stopped continuing the number of times you lifted and put down that bundle of FO cable.

"10 gigabit - so slow" - LOL, never enough, is it? Me - how can I get my Cat 5e to go slightly faster (2.5g).

The cables seem so sensitive like they will damage easily

Me wow my new PC has 2.5Gbe Yesss

Got Slack?

only people that get trancievers for free would use a 6" fibre jumpers and not a DAC cable ;-p

25GB version? B-roll says otherwise (10GB)

Are you really sure these are OM4 fiber cables? Normally OM2 is orange, OM3 is this blue color you have and OM4 is purple. At least this is how they are normally colored.

can't carry power over fiber. 10G is a better solution for delivering POE to IoT devices. I can't imagine why I would need a camera, phone, MQTT device to be connected at 100G.

Copper is easy to fix. Fibre is wayyy harder. But yes light is way faster.

A high SNR is better than a low SNR.

Just wait til you try and buy a switch that will handle 100gb not only are those switches themselves incredibly expensive but they all require a yearly license to use them.

MM uses a led light source not a laser

"10 gigabit is so slow" meanwhile me with 40mbps dsl internet

If you are building a house make sure you have a smart panel with conduit runs to each location and not just cable pulled. You'll thank me as technology changes

Imagine thinking that the light coming from a fiber port is a “laser” that can damage your eyes when looking at it for 0.003 seconds..

In my country the fastest Internet is 5mbps😩 and the upload is500kbps

You speak in decimal system. What country are from? It is not US definitely.

$200 per run to terminate let alone around $1000 for the switch and another 1-300 further network card.. it's only "cheap" beast all fiber and connections were donated

nice video but the sad part is you probably won't get those speeds. because a 2.5 inch ssd will only transfer at a max of 500 megs a second. the only way u would get that connection is if u had nvme drive on the host machine and on the server. and the max the ssd can go is like 3500 mbps. nowhere near 25 gigabit. That's why I chose to not upgrade to fiber quite yet. is because storage needs to come a long ways before they are traveling at the same speed. I just hope in 10 or 20 years from now they are still using LC fiber connections. but we will see. if I ever get a NAS I want a sfp plus port for future upgrades.

why are you constantly out of breath?

You can do exactly what you are doing here with a single strand of SMF. Lot of wrong information in this video, your concept is neat but this is not how you would build a network. There is nothing easier about MMF. It's just cheaper.

It's beautiful but i still don't get why someone needs it. If you have more than 50 employees, i could understand the need but fiber cable inside the house looks very unnecessary to me.

Me with 15mbps😅

I don't think SFP+/SFP28 transciever can be used in a SFP slot.

You are "NOT" going to go blind if you look into the end of the fiber cable at all. It's to low of power. Plus the width of the light is so small, you would have to shove the LC connector into your eye.. If you really want to see the light at the end, use your phone in camera ( picture taking mode) then look at the end of the lc connector one side will be lite up.. It's actually not that bright either..

Question: Would you do a video that shows how to use your synology to mine crypto in docker? Also, nice work!

Pffft... Why would you not use single mode? And always, ALWAYS, clean your fiber connections before plugging them in, even on new cables.

Even though you were not paid for this review, you didn't pay for the cable... and you used those cables for personal use. In a way you were paid with the merchandise. I hope you declared that as revenue and paid the taxes.

lol so much wrong here. You aren't going to hurt your eyes. This and typical equipment in datacenters are class 1. I've been looking at lights for years on my fiber connections. Anything harmful without a doubt will be made known to you. What's really dangerous is the possibility of less experienced folks thinking they need a fiber backbone in their house and thinking it will make everything faster. For 99% of people, this is a waste of money. Unless you are pushing big data around between servers INTERNALLY while serving up thousands of client connections for services, or running a hotel with free Netflix streaming, there is no real need for this. I've got piles of mmf I could wire up my neighborhood with a pile of sfps and equipment and I still running wi-fi and cat5e. What is nice about having a 25Gbps link at your PC? What application would suck up 25gbps when you kick it off? You keep saying faster but what you should be saying is more.. None of this will make anything faster unless of course you are on DSL then anything will be faster but it's not many steps up to hit the point of diminishing returns.

10gbps is so slow 🤣

Why? Why not just go put a cat8 cable in in there?

Dude you are mess.....spaghetti line.........all that money for nothing

100GbE? *plugs into 10GbE port* Riightt....

Bros just waffling knows nothing about fiber