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I also installed fiber a while ago after being told "this isn't hard" by Michael Stapelberg's post [1]. Luckily I managed to get by with patch cables; a 30m cables really goes a long way! I even managed to get a duplex LC through a 16mm conduit with a pretty tight 90° bend, but just with lube, quite some force and luck.

I can just recommend going for it if you're curious. Cables and tranceivers really aren't expensive from fs.com (though their sales people may start bothering you).

Edit: And old, used network cards from ebay, of course.

[1]: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2020-08-09-fiber-link-ho...

[archi42]

Kudos for pulling those through these small conduits :)

For anyone trying to emulate this: I would very much NOT recommend using 16mm conduits for LC duplex patch cables. It's doable for some short/straight runs, but the connectors like to get stuck in bends. For me it was the final r=3cm bend in a ~20m conduit. I ended up pulling Cat7 into that conduit and routed the fiber through a tree-like network of wider backup conduits.

Since the backup conduit ends up in the wrong corner of the room, I might one day 1. cut the 30m fiber patch cable, 2. pull it into the original 16mm conduit (w/o connectors), replacing the Cat7 and 3. splice the fiber again. Using a "mechanical splice" that should be doable quite cheaply, but I didn't yet get around to learning/practicing that.

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You can also use a pre-polished connector instead of splicing

e.g.: https://www.fs.com/de-en/products/35165.html (there's instructions if you scroll down)