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What why? That looks insanely expensive.
Not that expensive, probably under 10 USD for 10 km, given that I can find offers like below in a few minutes on Aliexpress
https://aliexpress.com/item/1005008412846430.html
Dang. That link gives me a page not found, but if that's network quality, it's hella cheaper per foot than ethernet. Why am I still running cat6 in my house?
Oh dang, here's a screenshot at least:
Cabled G657.A1 fibers with a LSZH mantle is going to be more expensive compared to this bare fiber G652.D of course, but yeah there are people who start using it at home. The main issue is finding end devices with SFP slots, so you don't have to convert between optical and electrical all over the house.
i dug around on Alibaba and found SFP fiber for $10/km. Insane.
And, yes, that got me started down a rabbit hole of home fiber. It is odd that home devices with fiber options aren't more common. I'm sure someone will say, "why? Ethernet is good enough," but again: fiber wire (cable?) costs are a fraction of ethernet, especially if you're going for the high speed rating. I don't see prices for switches and connectors on Amazon being outrageous, for multi-mode.
Here's me, just tooling along extending ethernet and running fiber was so as expensive as it was ten years ago. Ethernet for sure still is.