OS2- 50M/164ft 4 Core Outdoor Armored LC to LC Fiber Patch Cable Single Mode

I am adding fiber optic cabling between buildings at a farm and needed an easy solution to running armored fiber optic cabling at the site. I don't have any fiber optic cable termination tools, so purchasing pre-terminated cables that are long enough and are rated for direct burial made this project much easier overall. Fiber optic cable is very high quality and worked as expected. Using this and hardware purchased from Amazon, I was able to upgrade the network backbone to fiber optic cabling and resolved the video streaming 'stutters' that was prevalent on the old network. Very happy with the results of this project and these cables.

The LC boot on one end was cracked straight out of the bag. Not shipping damage — the plastic is cheap and brittle. For $100 I shouldn't have to inspect connectors under a loupe before I can trust them. Returned

These work great, the ends are a little fragile but that’s expected with fiber connectors. Will be buying more

This replaces a gigabit ethernet cable I used to bury and replace from my house to my workshop, where the starlink is located. Lightning kept blowin up the cable and the two switches on either end. If it were just the switches I'd add lightning protection, but the cable itself is being damaged and doesn't even connect at 10mbps (two pair) after each significant storm. I switched to wireless with Deco outdoor units and that worked well enough - 50-80mbps, 40-60mS latency, but once I saw that 10g sfp+ 5 port 2.5g ethernet switches were becoming available under $50 each, I decided to try an optical cable. I may never use all three fibers, but I don't want to have to bury this more than once, and I don't want the additional cost of a pipe to pull cables later (I'm sure this won't come back t bite me...!) - that would push the cost above what I'm willing to pay for a solution at this time. Connecting one of the fibers with a 10g bidi sfp+ on each each end and holy smokes - I'm regularly getting 180-200mbps via wifi at the house, with latency around 28-35mS. To be fair I turned the Deco mesh network into an access point and switched to a ubiquiti er-x router at the same time, which has certainly had some impact compared to the NAT built into Deco, but the speed and latency improvements of this cable have easily been worth the trouble and cost. Now for the issues - this cable is provided spool-less, and uncoiling it by hand was a nightmare. I spent 2+ hours just laying it out across the yard. Save yourself some time and buy a reusable spool, or put the cable around a large pipe and glue on sides or make a spool of some sort. Looking back I should have chosen the cable on the spool for this 100M cable. Maybe it's not a big problem for shorter runs, but definitely keep it in mind as you select your cable. It also didn't come with a pulling eye pre-attached. I only needed to get it through a few small holes and short pipes so didn't need anything with significant strength, but you'll want to use a mesh fiber pulling eye if you need to pull it through anything narrow or long. Make sure it attaches securely to the armored portion of the cable beyond the split on each end. You'll need 1" pipe and holes for this. You might be able to get away with 3/4' but it's going to be a tight fit with the LC connectors in the way. They aren't staggered, and there's not quite enough length to stagger them without bunching up the cable too much. All that said, the significant speed increase and reduced latency was easily worth it. the cable worked perfectly the first time with no cleaning or needing to measure optical output or fiddle with transceiver parameters.

I have a fiber-capable Cisco switch and a 10G fiber network card in my server. This allows me to have 2 fat pipes between my switch and server, which now doesn't have to be anywhere near my switch. And every single computer on my network (which is small, 3-4 pc's) has a fat 1g line to my server, which means I can upload/download from every machine and never see any performance hit / bottleneck in my server connection. In every case, I'm bottle-necked by the 1g per of my switch, and never by the server's connection. It makes for a very efficient home network capable of moving large files quickly. Now if I can upgrade to a 2.5g switch, I'll be all set... 5 stars, great cable, does exactly what I need and it's plenty long enough.