I'll be moving to a new house soon, and one of the things I'm looking to do is put my lab environment at the end of the garden in a separate small building. I need to get gigabit connectivity back to the house, and have a number of options.
Option 1 is to get some Procurve 1810-24 switches and a couple of fibre GBICs and run 1000SX between the two, carrying various vlans between them. This is expensive.
Option 2 is to just run copper, but I've questions about how well copper cables cope when buried outside, and also how well they'll perform over distance.
Option 3 is to send fibre outside, but then use media converters at each end and go with cheaper switches that don't have fibre capability (1810-8s - I don't need the port capacity).
My main question is - are media converters any good? Will I expect to get the same performance as if I went with option 1, or are they problematic?
Any advice welcome
Option 1 is to get some Procurve 1810-24 switches and a couple of fibre GBICs and run 1000SX between the two, carrying various vlans between them. This is expensive.
Option 2 is to just run copper, but I've questions about how well copper cables cope when buried outside, and also how well they'll perform over distance.
Option 3 is to send fibre outside, but then use media converters at each end and go with cheaper switches that don't have fibre capability (1810-8s - I don't need the port capacity).
My main question is - are media converters any good? Will I expect to get the same performance as if I went with option 1, or are they problematic?
Any advice welcome
