Fiber Optic

[allenjones]

I have recently signed up for 5mb fiber service. It will not be installed for a mounth or so. Are thier Special routers to take full advantade of the fiber? I plan to hardwire each computer. Will I gain anything buy using fiber patch cables? My current router is a 8 port D-Link 808HV

Any suggestions to take full advantage of this service. Thier are always 3 computers on my network sometimes as many as 6 computers all running XP Pro.

 

[kevnich2]

I think that you're misunderstanding your future fiber internet service. From the phone company, it's fiber to the demarc (that's the spot in your house where it terminates). The ISP (I'm assuming verizon in your case) will install all of the fiber termination equipment and then into your router they'll just give you a CAT5 cable or give you a new router which has a coax input (I've seen both CAT5 and coax to the customer routers). But you wont' need anything fiber as far as your home equipment. As far as the higher speed, 5mb isn't anything super fast so any consumer soho router can handle it. I've got a 10mb cable connection going through my router which has a 100mb WAN port and it handles just fine.