Re: looking for someone to terminate fiber

2018-03-08 Thread Doug Hales
SC and LC connectors don't have anything to do with the signal. They are just different connector types, and both are used with single mode and multi mode fiber. APC (with SC or LC) connectors have angled ends to reduce the reflection of light causing signal degradation or interference. You don't w

Re: looking for someone to terminate fiber

2018-03-07 Thread Eric Olsen
On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 11:34 PM, wrote: > > hopefully i didn't just ruin your day. Not at all! As much as I would have loved to have this one I already bought work, I'd much rather hear now that it won't work than after breaking the now-working 100M connection trying to get it to work. /* PLUG:

Re: looking for someone to terminate fiber

2018-03-07 Thread mike
On Wed, Mar 7, 2018, at 10:21 PM, Eric Olsen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 11:02 PM, wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 6, 2018, at 9:36 AM, Eric Olsen wrote: > > > The old hardware had a weird way of connecting the fiber - it didn't > > have a > > > standard connector, you had to strip the fiber and h

Re: looking for someone to terminate fiber

2018-03-07 Thread Eric Olsen
On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 11:02 PM, wrote: > On Tue, Mar 6, 2018, at 9:36 AM, Eric Olsen wrote: > > The old hardware had a weird way of connecting the fiber - it didn't > have a > > standard connector, you had to strip the fiber and hook it in directly > > somehow. So I need a connection that will f

Re: looking for someone to terminate fiber

2018-03-06 Thread mike
On Tue, Mar 6, 2018, at 9:36 AM, Eric Olsen wrote: > The old hardware had a weird way of connecting the fiber - it didn't have a > standard connector, you had to strip the fiber and hook it in directly > somehow. So I need a connection that will fit the new hardware. i'm pretty sure that older uto

Re: looking for someone to terminate fiber

2018-03-06 Thread Chris Wood
> Thanks for the thoughts, Chris. I am on XMission as well. I forget if it > was in a chat with their tech support, or in one of their announcement > emails, but they informed us that the lowest speed would be 250M for the > same price, but to get it would require a hardware upgrade otherwise I'm >

Re: looking for someone to terminate fiber

2018-03-06 Thread Eric Olsen
On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Chris Wood wrote: > On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 9:36 AM, Eric Olsen wrote: > > not Linux-related, I apologize, however we're a group of experts so I'm > > hoping someone here will have an answer. > > > > I have Utopia, I got in when they would allow paying a (reasonab

Re: looking for someone to terminate fiber

2018-03-06 Thread Chris Wood
On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 9:36 AM, Eric Olsen wrote: > not Linux-related, I apologize, however we're a group of experts so I'm > hoping someone here will have an answer. > > I have Utopia, I got in when they would allow paying a (reasonably) higher > price to own the hardware rather than lease it. Th