how do you connect fiber optic cable to your computer..better internet connection?

Question

for faster internet speeds?

Answer 1

You can't, yet. The fiber optic cable will convert to a coaxial cable or ethernet cable then go into your PC.

Answer 2

This shows your lack of understanding.

Ethernet can run at 1,000 Kbps today with the proper connections and equipment. The 10 GB or 10,000 Kbps standard for Ethernet is already defined and some equipment is ready.

Fiber optic speeds can be 10 Kbps, 100 Kbps, 1,000 Kbps and usually over 1,000 Kbps the fiber is bundled (but not always) for greater speed.

Having said that, how will you be getting your Internet feed and what speed will it be? I suspect the best you will see is about 8 - 10 Kbps. With 1,000 Kbps ethernet LAN speed, why mess with a fiber optic LAN?

Never the less, you would need a fiber optic NIC card connected inserted in the pci slot of the pc. I have not looked for such but I suspect they might be available.

Answer 3

The previous answerer is correct in that fiber alone will not increase your bandwidth. The quality of your connection is only as strong as its weakest link. Fiber really is only useful for driving a lot of bandwidth to your front door and for network backbones. Once it's in your house, standard Cat5e twisted pair is fully capable of 10/100/1000 speeds as long as the run lengths do not exceed 100m. Fiber is useful in LANs in cases where you may need to extend your network to another office building. In that case you would only use one ore two fiber cables to connect the switch in the first building to the switch in the second building. If you actually have FIOS or any other fiber going to your house, you won't have any real benefit to running fiber in your LAN. If you want to spend (throw away) money on higher quality cable, you can go for Cat6 which has less signal loss (relatively) but is harder to work with. If you are using Cable, the best thing to do is keep the cables as short as possible and avoid using a lot of splitters and hooking up like 10 TV's. You should also be using a wired connection and not WiFi if you are. Cat5e cable is just fine for connecting to your PC, but don't use an excessively long cable. Also, especially avoid running cable through very noisy areas, next to electrical equipment, or next to electrical cabling in the walls, which will cause signal degradation. I don't know how much bandwidth you are leasing from your ISP, but in a 3-tier system as most cable companies are, you should be in at least the 2nd tier (usually called preferred) or the 3rd tier (usually called premium or premier). Relatively, it's usually 1.5mb, then 3mb to 5mb, then 8mb to 12mb, as you go up the levels of service that most ISPs provide. You may want to purchase more.

Answer 4

You can get a media converter. This converts from a fibre to a cable. however if this is for a home system you will not get better perfromance. Cable runs at close to light speed. the bottleneck on any system it the modem/switches/routers

www.agloco.com/r/BBFS4746

Answer 5

The only people that use fiber optics is Verizon. People claim that it is faster.

Answer 6

You must have some kind of modem to get the signal into a format that your computer can deal with. It will output a signal that can be connected into the Lan port.

Answer 7

you would need to get a fiber optic modem and have the phone company run fiberoptics to your house.. very expensive..

hope this help... jaems