I FELL THROUGH My Ceiling Trying To Run Fiber! - Was It Even Worth It? 

Working on an attic in the middle of the summer is something I don't wish, not even to my worst enemy.

Very nice video Samir, There are some tips i will give you. 1. Always unroll the fiberbundle so the hoops and swirls are not in the way. 2. Always clean (!!!!) any fiber connection, even if the fiber is new.

Wow, you were very fortunate that you were not seriously injured. When our son was a young teen, he and his running mate decided to scope out our attic space. His buddy missed a joist and went right through the ceiling. Fortunately he went right between the joists and landed on his feet. Biggest lesson learned, they had to hire someone to repair the ceiling. Would love to pull fiber to my rack but I’m no longer allowed to enter the attic (by order of my son). So, will have to wait till he has time to come do it for me.

Cat inspection part was funny. lol

hes checking the cat cables LOL 7:59

Some notes to consider for anyone else trying this -Starting with the one you did but didn't mention: When using the enclosed electrical boxes, pop the cable management tabs off completely so you don't pinch your fibers (they're required to secure NMC for electrical installs, but not for the class 2 that includes data runs) -There are sites that will ship you pre-terminated armored fiber with core counts of one to a few dozen. Despite the added cost, this is recommended if you're not running through conduit. They'll also make nice pull heads of at least one side so everything is nice and protected while you pull leads. -Keystone blanks: They're great! you just pop them out later when it's time to add more connections to your data plates -Importantly: duplex fiber pairs tend to be crossover cables for your convenience. If you don't want to pull apart your LC ends and have odd cables lying around, use and odd number of cables in your connector chain (as seen in the video: wall+side1+side2) as any even number will cancel out your crossover

I really like the way you pack a lot of good info in a short amount of time.

The cat made for amazing content!😂

Samir my friend another great video, sorry about your misstep on the ceiling and glad you didn't get hurt. As usual very clearly explained, this maybe a future project for me because like you I'm curious to see how it works for myself.

Great info thanks! I feel your TX comment- I live here too, it is sucking right now!

Nice work, getting the experience first time is always important, cheers from Israel

i did the same thing when i was doing cabling for an old job, walking in the attic across the rafters, the board i was on tipped and my foot went through, i grabbed the ventalation straps (slicing my hand across all fingers, but i didnt fall through into customer service), luckily they just needed to replace a ceiling tile and i needed several bandages. coworker i think needed an icepack as he wanged his head on the steal beams when he ran up to check on me

Cool video !! Fiber to the workstation via 10g is what im using too!!

man that fiber installer really did a number on the install. You most likely have a passive optical network on the ISP side, which is shared bandwidth and it all depends how many houses you share with; PON plc splitters are 1:4 1:8 1:16:1:32 1:64

Nice job, thinking of doing the same. What’s the siren for in the attic?

thanks for sharing and info, have a great day

One thing you could do is run a "smurf tube" conduit (orange is really the color for low voltage, but that is just a color for code purposes) through the attic so you can pull more through later and to protect it, but depends on budget.

I just was thinking some time ago if would be possible to use fiber instead rj45 cables and now your video was recommended to me. Definitely I will use fiber cable on my next networking setup.

Ugh, I ran ethernet through my house in the middle of summer as well. Idk why we do this to ourselves.

u sound calming

Glad I watched. Have never fallen through the ceiling but that is definitely a possibility. I am about to run another cat6 cable and am also in Texas. At least this week is cloudy and not 100 degrees. Am hoping to spend only a few minutes in the attic. Planning helps. Would like to do fiber but don' t have that switch, just a unifi 16 port poe. Like you said 10 gig is overkill for my network. I did just add T-Mobile home internet to my udm-pro for a failover. It looks like it is working good. Good speeds (200 mbps+)

I did the same thing placing an antenna cable in my ceiling many years ago.

Crawlspaces FTW!

I think your fiber linking so fast after wakeup is because you have a PCIE card for the SPF+ connection, PCIE cards in some cases stay awake during sleep, so its technically always on unlike the gigabit port on the pc that falls asleep when you put the computer to sleep.

I did the same thing while running wire for my UniFi6 Long Range.....

If you have a little cordless vac, hold that up to the cut while you're cutting the drywall. I need you to come run some cable in my house but no ceiling work.

The cat did it for me :)

Do the 1 gig SFP transceivers get hot like the 10 gig ones? I have one in transit that I'm planning on using for WAN failover so it won't be doing much work.

If you're on some sort of PON internet (i.e. Frontier, AT&T) then it's for sure a simplex fiber

You know, I've never taken notice of the temperature of 10GBase-T SFP's, but that's a good note. Don't the DAC cable ends get just as hot though? Aren't they essentially just the same thing, but with a cable that's permanently attached? At least that's what I always thought. I always wondered why DAC cables were so much cheaper than buying 10GBase-T modules, are they really that different in how they accomplish the task?

This is funny because when I had fiber internet installed the installer did the same thing at my house lol.

This video was recommended after the Ludwig swat video where an officer fell through the ceiling. LOL

My cat too regularly inspects my work.

What do you use to connect your ( Fiber WAN ) to your UDM Pro? My ISP gave me a Nokia ONT that outputs an RJ45. I then attach that RJ45 to my UDM Pro SFP+ port via RJ45SFP+ Transceiver. I've been experimenting with different manufacturers, but I'm getting wonky results.

I did the exact same thing when I moved into my new house all but i went all the way through my ceiling

make sure the att fiber is not 90ed it is real easy to brake that fiber going to there jack. I work for att they should of ran a pre-made fiber in to the jack it is harder to brake and 90

Nice video How will you repair your ceiling?

Careful my mother did that in her attic while growing up.

What's the horn @ 10:35 ?

I'm still surprised that LC couplers don't all use the shutter doors. Those plugs always get lost. Here's what I'm talking about. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Cd9dCtb_Nf8.htmlsi=mg0LrSVXoeQ1DBtV&t=58

10 gig is fine over cat5e in a house unless your runs are absolutely ridiculous sized

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ZERO need for fiber, copper would have been fine.

Clearly you didn't know now to correctly run fiber. Please never do this for anyone but yourself, the installation is a hack job.