Fiber was 200 megabit, 100 each way. Had to have two fibers for full speed. Then came 100 megabit full duplex wired Ethernet, matching the speed of fiber. For some reason companies quit working on fiber to speed it up as an alternative to Ethernet. Then came gigabit, 2.5 gigabit, 5 and now 10 gigabit on copper. 5 gigabit can make a NAS pretty much as good as a locally connected SATA drive.
Fiber 'cables' can often be found dirt cheap, pieces ready to plug in. But try finding the network cards. Then what about drivers for anything newer than Windows XP? Fiber for local computer networking has died due to apathy and neglect, surpassed by even the lowliest DSL connection over POTS for long distance links - which most of the time now get switched over fiber optic lines. On Friday, April 21, 2017, 5:16:49 PM MDT, dave <dengv...@charter.net> wrote:Years ago when I thought fiber might catch-on I grabbed some 62.5/120 plenum fiber at Boeing Surplus. I got as far as connecting a 10-base2 card to a fiber converter fishing out both ends of the fiber on the reel and terminating with 3M (?) hot-melt end. It worked nicely but 10 Mhz isn't straining fiber very much. The good thing about fiber is the low error rate; something around 1E-12. I just disposed of the converters a few days ago. Still have several Km of fiber and a few connectors. 10-baseT works just fine thru conduit buried between desktop (house) and shop. About 35 m. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
