Hi guys, this is my first post on Tom's Hardware so be kind!
I've just been wondering why we aren't using fibre optic cable around the house?
I find it bizzare that we have fibre optic ISPs now and yet we're using either Wireless technology or Ethernet between our modems and our devices.
There may be a specific reason for this or something I've overlooked but I've searched over the net to find pretty much no advance in the technology..
Is there any reason why we aren't seeing this? I've had some ideas on how it would be possible, for example ethernet out of router into a converter which converts the ethernet signal to a fibre optic signal across the cable to another converter then ethernet in. Would this actually benefit speeds or am I just being retarded?
Any ideas or information would be great as I'm thinking that this could be something we should be looking at in terms of home networking.
Cheers guys
Chris
I've just been wondering why we aren't using fibre optic cable around the house?
I find it bizzare that we have fibre optic ISPs now and yet we're using either Wireless technology or Ethernet between our modems and our devices.
There may be a specific reason for this or something I've overlooked but I've searched over the net to find pretty much no advance in the technology..
Is there any reason why we aren't seeing this? I've had some ideas on how it would be possible, for example ethernet out of router into a converter which converts the ethernet signal to a fibre optic signal across the cable to another converter then ethernet in. Would this actually benefit speeds or am I just being retarded?
Any ideas or information would be great as I'm thinking that this could be something we should be looking at in terms of home networking.
Cheers guys
Chris