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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Although your ISP was kind enough to run this fibre for you, the price of 30 meters LC/UPC terminated fibre isn’t terribly excessive (at least here in USA), so would it be possible to use their fibre as a pull-string to run new fibre instead? That would avoid all the adapters, although you’d have to be handy and careful with the pull forces allowed on a fibre.

    The problem is the installation of the connectors. They’ve welded the fiber the SC/APC pigtails, I wouldn’t be able to do that.

    The big manufacturers (Cisco, HPE/Aruba, etc) will have detailed spec sheets, so you can find the branded one that works for you. And then you can cross-reference that to cheaper, generic, compatible xcvrs.

    That would be very very generous of you; in the fiber section I’m pretty ignorant and I’m worried to purchase wrong items 🙈


  • Thanks for your precision! To the ONT arrives a single fiber with a SC/APC connector, but this is not a problem since I will be using the ONT provided and use the 2,5Gb copper port to connect it to OPNsense (looking for a 2,5 Gb PCI card). The 2 fiber that I’ve asked them to run (from OPNsense to server) are terminated with the same SC/APC connectors and I was thinking about using this SC female/female adapter and this SC/APC to LC cable that I’ve just realized that are still APC…I’ll have a look if there are SC/APC to LC/UPC cables

    As for that xcvr, please note that it’s an LRM, or Long Range Multimode xcvr. Would it probably work at 30 meters? Probably. But an LR xcvr that is single mode 1310 nm would be ideal.

    Is it a LRM? Damn, I didn’t realized since I’ve filtered for single mode. If the filter doesn’t work, I’ve no idea which is LR. Would you be so gentle to point to a cheap one for single mode finer?


  • Do I have that right? If so, my advice would be to identify the wavelength of that fibre, which can be found printed on the outer jacket. Do not rely on just the color of the jacket, and do not rely on whatever connector is terminating the fibre. The printed label is the final authority.

    You got it right! On the cable unfortunately there is no wavelength printed (it’s a cable made for my ISP), but I’ve read on a forum (that talks about this ISP):

    GPON adopts WDM to transmit data of different upstream/downstream wavelengths over the same ODN. Wavelengths range from 1290 - 1330 nm in the upstream direction and from 1480 - 1500 nm in the downstream direction.

    I think that I’ll go with 2 SFP+ 10GBASE-LRM 1310nm 2km Module, Cisco that costs 29€

    Edit: In the meanwhile, do you have any 2,5Gbe PCI card that you suggest (I need it to connect OPNsense to the ONT via PPPoE)? I’ve found only the QNAP QXG-2G1T-I225 that costs about 75€ or the Edimax EN-9225TX-E for about 41€ (but I haven’t read much about this one).