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throw0101cyesterday at 10:56 PM1 replyview on HN

> I feel like we have moved into the era now where if you were putting cabling in the walls for networking you should be choosing fibre now.

How many consumer devices have an ((Q)SFP(+)) optical cage?

If you're in their pulling stuff anyway, sure, do some OS2, but for most people, for most devices, Cat 5e/6 is more useful, especially since you can do POE(+(+)) over it as well. 5e/6 gets you 10GbE to 55m, and 6A to 100m.


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protocoltureyesterday at 10:58 PM

Personally, if I was building a house, anywhere I want significant non wifi hardware would have a switch anyway.