So, my house was built well before houses were wired for ethernet, and in two parts, one of which doesn't have any good way to pull wires.
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So, my house was built well before houses were wired for ethernet, and in two parts, one of which doesn't have any good way to pull wires.
For years I used various wireless solutions to bridge, moving to MoCA 2.5 later on, but there were aspects of both that caused problems with some applications.
I recently replaced that with an Invisilight fiber kit, which worked *great*. Easy, invisible, effective. Good stuff.
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So, my house was built well before houses were wired for ethernet, and in two parts, one of which doesn't have any good way to pull wires.
For years I used various wireless solutions to bridge, moving to MoCA 2.5 later on, but there were aspects of both that caused problems with some applications.
I recently replaced that with an Invisilight fiber kit, which worked *great*. Easy, invisible, effective. Good stuff.
Note that I used their SFPs, but did not use their ethernet->SFP adapters (which have power supplies).
Instead, I put one of the SFPs directly into a switch with an SFP slot, and used the other with a Ubiquiti POE+ powered adapter at the other end.
But I'm sure their adapters work fine - I just didn't want the wall warts.
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So, my house was built well before houses were wired for ethernet, and in two parts, one of which doesn't have any good way to pull wires.
For years I used various wireless solutions to bridge, moving to MoCA 2.5 later on, but there were aspects of both that caused problems with some applications.
I recently replaced that with an Invisilight fiber kit, which worked *great*. Easy, invisible, effective. Good stuff.
@dnanian oooh! I didn’t know those existed, and fairly inexpensively. Does it do right-angles well? It’s thin enough to look like part of the baseboard (assuming the baseboards are white), but I reckon corners would be difficult.
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So, my house was built well before houses were wired for ethernet, and in two parts, one of which doesn't have any good way to pull wires.
For years I used various wireless solutions to bridge, moving to MoCA 2.5 later on, but there were aspects of both that caused problems with some applications.
I recently replaced that with an Invisilight fiber kit, which worked *great*. Easy, invisible, effective. Good stuff.
@dnanian Ooooh neat!
Curious what kind of trouble you saw with the MoCA adapters. I used some for a couple of years and didn’t notice any problems.
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@dnanian oooh! I didn’t know those existed, and fairly inexpensively. Does it do right-angles well? It’s thin enough to look like part of the baseboard (assuming the baseboards are white), but I reckon corners would be difficult.
@octothorpe The fiber is spec'ed for *extremely* tight bend radii:
"The fiber used in our kit features a G.657.B3 fiber which means you can create multiple 90 degree bends with little to no attenuation."
It's tiny (seriously, exceptionally thin), white, and easily disguised/covered along baseboards. They provide adhesive/caulk that you can use.
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@dnanian Ooooh neat!
Curious what kind of trouble you saw with the MoCA adapters. I used some for a couple of years and didn’t notice any problems.
@jackbrewster Extremely demanding streaming (specifically, Kaleidescape 4K/HDR/Dolby Atmos/etc, very high bandwidth, effectively uncompressed video) would not work reliably given the delays the MoCA adapters add with some types of traffic.
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So, my house was built well before houses were wired for ethernet, and in two parts, one of which doesn't have any good way to pull wires.
For years I used various wireless solutions to bridge, moving to MoCA 2.5 later on, but there were aspects of both that caused problems with some applications.
I recently replaced that with an Invisilight fiber kit, which worked *great*. Easy, invisible, effective. Good stuff.
@dnanian That’s really cool.. does it really hide that well?
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@dnanian That’s really cool.. does it really hide that well?
@sanguish Yes, it really does.
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@octothorpe The fiber is spec'ed for *extremely* tight bend radii:
"The fiber used in our kit features a G.657.B3 fiber which means you can create multiple 90 degree bends with little to no attenuation."
It's tiny (seriously, exceptionally thin), white, and easily disguised/covered along baseboards. They provide adhesive/caulk that you can use.
@dnanian @octothorpe our rental literally looks like there “before” photo
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