Finally getting fiber between the house and garage
Getting network to the garage is a story with many chapters. I started out with Wi-Fi mesh, then CAT6 — and now, finally, fiber!
I knew we needed to get new power cables to the garage at some point, and could use that occasion to put down conduits for fiber as well. But in July 2021, one year after we moved in, I got tired of waiting, and dug CAT6 between the house and garage.
Then; another year later, in August 2022, we did install the new power cables — and put down a conduit for fiber. Early 2023 I bought a 200 ft (61 m) roll of single mode fiber, and a used D-Link DGS-1210-10P PoE switch.
But it wasn’t until May 2024 that we finally pulled the fiber through the conduit between the house and garage. The long delay was primarily because I was unsure how to do it, and then put it off.
I didn’t know what kind of fiber to get — my initial idea was to use multi-mode with duplex LC connectors, like I used between the basement and attic. But I wasn’t confident that it would survive being pulled through such a long conduit, about 25 meters.
