Help with home fiber networking?

[petreza]

In my home I have a long 75ft. CAT-5 cable (rated for gigabit). There is a lot of interference and I am able to get only 10Mbit working.

My needs have recently changed and I need to upgrade to gigabit speed. To eliminate the interference I am thinking of running a fiber cable, plus putting a gigabit PCIe card in the receiving computer.

My questions are:

What is the cheapest Copper(gigabit)---Fiber(gigabit) converter?

Any recomendation for a cable?

Thanks!

 

[SlooowJ]

75ft should be no problem for gigabit. Are you sure the cable is good - good connectors, all 8 wires wired straight through, etc.? What do you think is causing interference?

 

[Menelmarar]

I use a couple of FibroLAN GSM1014's at work that would probably work really easily for you.
Then just google for some appropriate fibre cable. Try Froogle.

Or you could try a cheaper route and use some STP cable. Like this for $12.
http://cat5ecableguy.com/inc/sdetail/3066

 

[jvlazzar]

i would examine you current configuration before jumping to fiber. are you running Cat5 or Cat5e? Any idea what is causing the interference? Cat6 (even possible shielded) is less susceptible to interference, maybe which would do the trick.