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The indisputable benefit of fiber for music

I've read a lot about fiber's audible superiority to Ethernet, and most of it I have taken with a grain of salt.  1GigE is plenty fast for just about anything, and it is balanced and galvanically isolated. The one area where fiber is clearly a better choice for music systems is lightning protection.

It is not uncommon for lightning to enter a home via the cable TV's coaxial cable. This can easily jump the millimeters from coax to Ethernet to Ethernet. So if you are like me, and rely on Ethernet cabling to stream to avoid any Wifi issues you are also creating a possible lightning path from the external Internet provider's connection all the way to your fancy audio gear.

In this one situation I have to say, the use of a 1m or longer fiber cable is the superior solution. I'm considering using this at the junction between the cable TV modem and my router, therefore isolating all of my streaming devices at once.

Best,

Erik
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Over the last couple of years the whole of Australia changed over the the NBN (National Broadband Network) which is all fibre optic.

Before I got changed over to fibre optic, I had very fast super reliable "cable" at 6ms ping and 120mB per sec download any time of the day.
Now with the fibre even though it "can" do "up to" 1000mB per sec depending on how much you want to pay, I get drop outs and many days when it’s slow. And that now costs me more.
And it’s going to be obsolete soon anyway, as now 5G wifi is coming with 1.8gB per sec download speed, should be a real brain fryer or tumour exciter when we get it.
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Cheers George
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