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moonwatcher64
May 22, 2026Luminary
Adding SFP to conenct from GS752TPPv3 to LG TV ... Help!!
Evening all, I have 2 GS752TPP's in a home environment. They were new last year and I have Insight installed. We have RJ45 cat 5e to Cat 6 flood wired throughout the property which works very...
moonwatcher64
May 23, 2026Luminary
Hi Kurt and thanks for the input.
Totally agree that it's overkill for our environment. Then again, that was what folks told me early 90's when we did the original RJ45 floodwire when rennovating the house. :-) .... and yet all these years on, it's proved to have paid back many fold.
Still you are correct, we don't need the degree of firepower we have and trying to play with. Being honest the switches we have are probaby also overkill for a home environment. But part of it for me is the experimentation, the fun of trying to do some of it .... same for the fiber. Would the Cat 6 feeds be enough? For sure. Would the fiber option be a lot more fun to try? For me yes. And take your point about linking the 2 switches .... I'd also like to do that.
I have already got the fibers ... and indeed today will feed them through the conduit .... even if unused. The Cat 6 feeds will be hard installed under cladding and plastered over as normal with UK data / power / audio etc. And indeed they can be fished through, removed, exchanged etc.
So totally take your point, it's not needed but I'd like to dabble with it. Recognising that benefits are limite to none, what SPF's might you install at the switch, and the media converter at the TV end? And to your point, what SPF devices might you fit on each switch to connect them?
When this current room rennovation is done, I'd like to do similar with office desktop and NAS boxes .... again we don't actually have any performace issues but I'm keen to have a play with fiber.
Thanks for taking the time
schumaku
May 23, 2026Guru - Experienced User
moonwatcher64 wrote:I have already got the fibers ... and indeed today will feed them through the conduit .... even if unused
What kind of preassembled fibers are these? Multi Mode (MM) or Single Mode (SM)?
- moonwatcher64May 23, 2026Luminary
Hi schmaku,
These are the ones I bought .... you can tell I'm feeling my way around this subject and is my style to do so ... the learning is far from complete :-) .....
Hi schumaku,
I tried posting a photo of what I'd bought but for reasons unknown the website keeps saying 'media uploading try again later' when press reply.
Anyway here are the details off the package ....
10 meter 3.0mm Multi Mode Duplex om3 50/125um. The make is Elfcam.
I'm learning as I go along here as you can tell :-) ... so it maybe that's not the optimum one. Happy to change it if I've missed target.
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