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Fibre Optic to desktop?

Abooth3d — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 22:45:12 GMT

Hi all

please can I have some advice, currently my father has fibre optic to the house to a device that looks like it converts to twisted pair then ethernet to the wireless router, all devices have internet connection via wireless.

what I wonder what I want to do is is to get a fibre optic NIC card for my desktop and run a fibre optic cable from the connection point to the desktop? Is this possible? If so what would I need to do this?

many thanks

Andrew

Re: Fibre Optic to desktop?

36ULW — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 23:18:31 GMT

The ONT’s Openreach use are Nokia, Huawei, Adtran and if you’re unlucky ECI.

Nokia, Huawei and Adtran only have 1 Ethernet Port and no Fibre Port, except for the incoming fibre of course.

The ECI ONT has 4 Ethernet Ports but again no Fibre Port.

So basically you’d have no choice but to use Ethernet.

And no, you can’t supply your own ONT. It has to be one supplied by Openreach as they’re Registered Against the Head End Port your OGEA Service is linked to.

Re: Fibre Optic to desktop?

ptrduffy — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 07:52:09 GMT

As @36ULW says, you have no option to get a fibre direct to the desktop. However, if your goal is just use a wired rather than wireless connection, then you can run an ethernet cable from the Hub to the desktop - with a Cat 5E or Cat 6 cable you can get 1 Gbps throughput over distances up to 100m.

Re: Fibre Optic to desktop?

caravanj — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 10:47:31 GMT

@Abooth3d

As @ptrduffy says, you'll get 1Gbps with a suitable Ethernet cable, as we do, so I don't see what real advantage a fibre optic link would give you, especially at £200 a pop for the NIC card, even if you could have had one.

Re: Fibre Optic to desktop?

WSH — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 11:05:08 GMT

In fact, potentially Cat 6 will deliver up to 10Gb/s at up to 55m, although it is not officially rated for that. I doubt whether the ONT is capable of that even if the line is. At the end of the day, any connection is only as fast as its slowest link. Fibre to the desktop is way over the top for the job.

Re: Fibre Optic to desktop?

verkosh — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 11:37:21 GMT

The ONTs BT use won't do 10gig though I think the latest ones they are using from Nokia and Adtran might be 2.5gbs capable