I've been looking at the dark fiber lines around my area, there are a lot of lines that run every direction from my town and at least 10 miles out or to the next town. We are served by very slow DSL with many people in the further reaches getting 3/.256 (and the area isn't sparse rural, but rural - maybe 20-50 houses / mile.
I was wondering if there is a way to run fiber house to house like an old token ring connection over a coax cable. Basically run the fiber to as many houses on one line as possible. I've seen that some things like traffic lights, street lights and camera are run this way but can a real internet connection be run in the same way? The video I saw said 1.2km is max distance (a repeater doubles this) and then there are some single mode that can go 40km.
I'd like to know what the potential this is for connecting a number of houses out a long stretch of road (some is private lanes 3-5 miles long with 15-25 houses on it)
I'm wondering what kind of speeds would be possible with a setup like this assuming the fiber line we connect to is 1/1Gbps.
Is there extra hardware that is needed at each house, basically a "modem" that has an input and output?
Is there a way, using a single cable, to make a "T" at the house driveway, connect to the house while also continuing down the road as well?
Or is there a way to tap the line on the road, allow the optic to continue on down the road while also running either an optical cable or Cat5/6 cable to the house - so the tap would have 3 connections :
from the house (cat5/6) or optical
Optical from up the road
Optical to continue down the road
I would think that if this could be done, you could cover a fair amount of distance for relatively little investment in optical cable and equipment.
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