New home network set up

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nzkc

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#2978505 7-Oct-2022 12:00

mmuir:

I am unsure about the "internal fibre" mentioned?

Can you please explain in a little more detail what is needed

Its basically that you do not have to use copper (Cat5e/Cat6/whatever) for your LAN or part of your LAN. You can use fiber for part (or all) of it. Therefore if you went the route of laying a cable between your shed and house it could be a fiber cable. You'd need a switch/router that supports fiber (usually using SFP modules)

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#2979695 9-Oct-2022 15:26

I think fibre to the shed seems like overkill. I’d just run a cat6 cable and a regular switch at the other end, you really won’t notice the difference.

And for around the home I’d go with mesh like someone mentioned, most systems are good nowadays, I set one up in a a big old stone build house recently with 3 nodes and it works well.

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#2979941 10-Oct-2022 10:07

allio:

nztim: Think you misunderstood what I was saying.

Put the street fibre at which ever end you want

But connect the house and shed via internal fibre with a switch at each end that has an SFP port for fibre modules

Cat6 over two dwellings that far apart can have electrical issues with potential differences between both sites

This is definitely the best-in-class solution, and the obvious choice if you have walls open and are digging a trench/have existing conduit. There's no advantage to using ethernet over fibre other than a slightly lower equipment cost.

In this case it sounds like the OP has the ground and everything open at the moment, so why not take the oppurtunity

If everything is closed up, I'd go Mikrotik wireless wire

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