{"id":152,"date":"2020-04-07T10:17:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T17:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.richardfrankhuff.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2020-04-07T10:17:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T17:17:27","slug":"micro-trenched-fiber-optic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richardfrankhuff.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/07\/micro-trenched-fiber-optic\/","title":{"rendered":"Micro-Trenched Fiber Optic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the many, many projects on my home project list was to run wired network connectivity between our house and the garage (which is a physically separate building).  The existing WiFi extension to the garage proved widely variable and generally unreliable.  It&#8217;s no fun to be in the middle of a Peloton class and have the class freeze.  Similarly, it&#8217;s disappointing when a laptop or iDevice cannot connect to the Internet when I&#8217;m trying to work on a technical project in the garage workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because there were not a number of good paths to run standard CAT5e or similar Ethernet &#8212; and it is generally discouraged to run copper Ethernet between two physically separate structures as a result of the differential ground potentials [see: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"link (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/civis\/viewtopic.php?t=121299\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>] &#8212; I micro-trenched simplex single mode bend tolerant fiber optic.  In addition to being able to push reliable, symmetric bandwidth, I&#8217;m able to start with 1Gbps and grow to 10Gbps in the future without changing the fiber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s the speed test <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richardfrankhuff.com\/vidbak\/trenchedfiberoptic.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"link (opens in a new tab)\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.richardfrankhuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_2446-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richardfrankhuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_2446-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.richardfrankhuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_2446-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blog.richardfrankhuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_2446.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Cutting Concrete; Laying The Fiber<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many, many projects on my home project list was to run wired network connectivity between our house and the garage (which is a physically separate building). The existing WiFi extension to the garage proved widely variable and generally unreliable. It&#8217;s no fun to be in the middle of a Peloton class and&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richardfrankhuff.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/07\/micro-trenched-fiber-optic\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardfrankhuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardfrankhuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardfrankhuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardfrankhuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardfrankhuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardfrankhuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardfrankhuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardfrankhuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardfrankhuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardfrankhuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}