Interesting! My experience was right here in Inner SE. Guess it depends on the particular block on which you live.
@kirkwallace Unfortunately there is no fiber in this area. Given our proximity to Silicon Valley, one would think we would have fiber. Nope. What we have is 1970 era twisted pair wire. It's so noisy, my FM radio in my car quits within a few feet of the sidewalk. I'll review the whole ISP offerings again in the near future. I'm told we will get fiber "in the future", whatever that means. |
@spatialking , too bad about no fiber to your house, but you can still have the “no EMI” benefits of fiber optic inside your house, even if just the “fiber moat” implementations before your streamer. That is, at the risk of telling you something you already know about, Ethernet cable into a fiber media converter (FMC) with a good fiber transducer SFP (like Finisar), good single or multi-mode fiber glass out to another FMC with a matching transducer and then as short as manageable Ethernet cable to your streamer. I do a version of that in front of each of my streamers and in front of my Roon core (which is in a room far away from the systems with the streamers). |