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Thavron ,
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I don’t necessarily have a solution, but it might be useful to know why you need such a big connection to the room, if you’re willing to share. Might lead to some different solutions.

stephaaaaan ,

I think OPs issue is a combination of available space and regulations. Little space + no copper data connections next to power cables leave little choice but fibre.

I‘m kind of in the same boat, as I would like to connect the garage and an annex building. However, the garage needs power to, prepared for EV - so, large power cable as well. Same for the annex one, in which I just want to have bandwidth available :)

Radiant_sir_radiant OP ,

Little space + no copper data connections next to power cables leave little choice but fibre.

That’s the thing. If I add anything else the house won’t pass the periodic electrical inspections.

For an EV we’re probably talking 11 or 22kW, so a rather thick cable. But you’re probably going to have it installed by a certified electrician anyway, or can you do that yourself in Germany?

stephaaaaan ,

You can pull the wiring yourself, but an electrician needs to do the connections and insulation tests :)

Radiant_sir_radiant OP ,

Hmm, Lemmy or Jerboa appears to have eaten my lengthy reply, so here we go again:

My aim is to have my router/firewall, mail server and VM host in the shelter, as it’s the most protected room in the house. That means I need at least two lines - one from the modem to the router/firewall, and one connecting everything to the internal LAN.

The internet connection is rated 400Mbit synchronous with the option of upgrading to up to 25Gbit, though at present I can’t imagine us ever needing that much and it’s probably more of a marketing gimmick anyway, so that line isn’t as critical, throughput-wise.

The rest of the house is currently a copper Gigabit affair, though the cabling is Cat7 and capable of more, so I wouldn’t want the fiber to be the bottleneck when we upgrade to 10Gbit a few years down the road. Hence multimode looks like a good idea. The question is whether (and how) there’s a way to cut, install and connect it myself. POF would be easier but comes with a number of question marks concerning 10GbE.

eveninghere ,

This might be a stupid suggestion, but Wifi 7 is to arrive on this Dec. It’s going to allow tens of Gbit/sec. Depending on your conditions, you might just buy a Wifi router.

Radiant_sir_radiant OP ,

Wi-Fi 7 looks promising, but I doubt I’ll get two independent reliable Gigabit+ connections through 35cm of reinforced concrete.

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