[SOLVED] Fibre optic LAN for gaming club

[Derbatz]

I'm opening a PC gaming club which will have 14 gaming PCs setup for online gaming. I was wondering whether it would be wise to install a fibre optic LAN to avoid LAN bandwidth issues if I'm lucky enough to fill all the PCs at once. Any advice would be appreciated.

A sneak peak at the design of my Gaming table.

 

[bill001g]

So why do you think fiber is better.

Just use cat5e ethernet cables and hook everything to a switch with gigabit ports. You can easily get a 16 port switch with gigabit ports for under $100. Every machine will be able to transfer 1gbit up and 1gbit down at the same time. It is impossible to get any lan bandwidth issues with modern switches.

 

[jsmithepa]

OK fiber is meaningless to me, you are really asking whether you should have a 10 gig LAN instead of readily available 1 gig. How is delivered copper or fiber don't matter to me.

Go 10 g if your game stations need to routinely download large games from a local server.