For consumer I really hope we will get 5GBASE-T. Even if it is just one port on the Router would be better than 1Gbps port.
Microtik is probably good enough for most home serving usage (honestly it would probably be good enough for a small cloud too), and is much cheaper, and way quieter.
Do you have any experience with them? Any pros and cons?
PS hi pdimitar ;)
For direct connections (NAS to VM host, for example), you can also forgo a switch and wire them directly on a private point-to-point network.
Terminating bulk fiber does require special tooling, but is generally not needed for a home installation.
How does Pulling Pre-terminated fibre walks? Doing it the same as Copper cables? I thought fibre cable were more brittle which makes home installation a no go?
This is interesting because I guess most are like me, all fixated on Copper Ethernet and never once thought about Fibre!
I pulled finished fiber through conduit to my garage (fiber is much better than copper for detached buildings). That was an el, two 90s, a 45, and about 17 meters of straight conduit pulled with a poly line. Worked fine.
In a case like yours (assuming you have at least Cat6 copper UTP in the wall), I’d surely just buy the slightly more expensive RJ45 transceivers.
I did research, and the problem I found was that there is very little availability for fiber cables of alternative colors. Most of the cables I found that were the right type and thickness I wanted, I could only find in bright yellow that would stick out.
There are a few products like invisilight that are incredibly thin and almost clear which would be ideal. However, they're only sold in bulk to businesses so I could only find some on ebay. It felt too adventurous for me to pull the trigger.
Currently 5Ghz wifi is sufficient, but its bad enough that I refrain from doing anything that consumes a lot of bandwidth, like torrenting.