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London Fibre Installation

Hi guys, new to the forum here,

I am with community fibre on the 3000mbps option and wanted to run some fibre cable within my house, i also have unifi switches & router which i havent even opened yet,
Is there any companies I can hire to install fibre/splice fibre within the house so i can have better speeds
 
I would stick with decent (commercial brand/quality) Cat5e or Cat6A. Both can do 10Gbps at the distances you typically find in a domestic situation. Just be aware that whilst Cat6A is technically better, it needs better containment and bend radius than Cat5e.

Cat7 is imo akin to snake oil.
 
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Is there any companies I can hire to install fibre/splice fibre within the house so i can have better speeds
There are indeed. But the cost to do a small number of splices will be high because of the travel, setup time etc. You're unlikely (in London especially) to get anyone out for less than a few hundred quid, unless you know any AltNet or Openreach fibre engineers that have a fusion splicer in the back of the van

An alternative is pre-terminated long leads - depends on the distances. But this could be an option.
 
Cat5e or Cat6A. Both can do 10Gbps at the distances you typically find in a domestic situation.
5e will be marginal on 10GbE. I know it's done on short runs <30m , but you're well outside the published bandwidth/distance tolerances - and any dodgy terminations, shitty jacks etc and it'll be tears. Better going for 6 or 6A on 10 GbE
 
Agree the headroom is much better on Cat6A, but if done to a professional commercial standard, I have had great stable service on old Cat5e at 10G.

What I also have experience of with Cat6A having performance issues when it's been installed badly, cables kinked, tight bends in the cable, etc. which is not as higher risk with Cat5e.
 
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This is what I did, however I used pre-terminated Invisilight. If you can get hold of some of that along with the glue and gun you're good to go without having anyone splicing.

Obviously remember you'll need an SFP+ port with either 10GBase-BX for simplex fibre or a pair of fibres with 10GBase-SR/LR optics either side.

I use single/simplex fibre and BX optics. They are quite a bit more expensive than their unidirectional equivalents. In the home multimode or single mode fibre is fine though I would go with single mode so that it's one and done.
 
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Obviously remember you'll need an SFP+ port with either 10GBaseBX for simplex fibre or a pair of fibres with 10GBaseSX optics either side.

I use single/simplex fibre and BX optics. They are quite a bit more expensive than their SX equivalents. In the home multimode or single mode fibre is fine though I would go with single mode so that it's one and done.
10GBase-LR for single-mode duplex, 10GBase-SR for multi-mode duplex (L = long range, S = short range), 10GBASE-BR for single-mode Bidirectional. The -SX, -LX, -BX suffixes are for gigabit.

Multi-mode went the way of the dinosaurs, so I would avoid SR.
 
Single-mode fibre all the way. You then keep all options open.

Cheaper cable and even though Bi-Di optics have gone up (like everything) over the last 12 months, still pretty decent value. I'd still run a very bare minimum of 2 cores though for a given link.
 
10GBase-LR for single-mode duplex, 10GBase-SR for multi-mode duplex (L = long range, S = short range), 10GBASE-BR for single-mode Bidirectional. The -SX, -LX, -BX suffixes are for gigabit.

Multi-mode went the way of the dinosaurs, so I would avoid SR.

Okay. Just going by what it says on the BiDi transceivers :) Stand corrected on the SX/SR stuff and have amended accordingly - goes to show how rarely I look at those.

 
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Single-mode fibre all the way. You then keep all options open.

Cheaper cable and even though Bi-Di optics have gone up (like everything) over the last 12 months, still pretty decent value. I'd still run a very bare minimum of 2 cores though for a given link.

This. I have 2 fibres everywhere forming a ring.
 
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