30ft (10 Meters) Uniboot LC to LC Outdoor Armored Fiber Patch Cable, Single Mode Duplex Fiber Optic Cable Jumper Optical Patch Cord, 9/125um, (OS1/OS2 Compatible), Low Friction LSZH Black

Easy to install in small spaces, well protected and strong. I used these cables to replace cat5 ethernet so I could run 10Gb/s to every room in my house. They are easy to pull and have not failed me.

I got 500 feet of this fiber cable and it works flawlessly. I use a pair of TP-Link SPF's to terminate it and I get full end-to-end gigabit service. This is to run from my home to an adjacent building. As the water line is run from the house to the new building, I will drop this and an RG-6 cable into the same trench before closing it up. I am confident that there will be no issue with direct-burial under these conditions. 11/07/2023 I wanted to amend this review now that I have installed this fiber. I buried it as mention above and it held up even when the trench was filled in. I have terminated it in the new building and tested again today. Even after abuse the fiber received (kinks, curling, etc.) as it was installed, it still works error-free with full speed. I highly recommend this fiberoptic cable.

Installation was straightforward and easy. I’ve been using it for about a week now and the speed has been excellent. The cable is very durable, with a tighter bend radius than I expected. Fiber optics have clearly improved a lot over time, both in performance and cost. My setup was simple. I ran the cable through PVC conduit buried underground and used wide sweep bends where the pipe comes up out of the ground. One important tip is to make sure you choose the correct connector ends for your equipment, there are several options, so it’s worth double-checking before you buy. I ended up with some extra cable coiled in my utility room, which hasn’t affected performance at all. Even over a distance of about 200 meters, speed remains strong. Overall, I would definitely recommend it and would buy it again.

Be very careful when using this cable. I purchased this another LC Fiber back in May 14, 2023. My first time using it was last night on October 14, 2023. The boot broke after one use. I purchased it as backup cable for just in case purposes. I use it for video feed for my video production company. I can’t return it or exchange it for a new one because of Amazon policy. You can see in the pictures I purchased more than one reel. Now I am afraid to use the other reels. Performance was great. Poor build quality. I can’t get anyone to exchange.

easy to pull. works as should.

I bought this cable to replace a 100 foot, outdoor, aerial copper Ethernet cable between two buildings. The problem with the copper line was lightning strikes in the area sometimes charged the copper Ethernet wires and blew out my networking equipment. This would happen to me every 3 or 4 years. That got expensive. Since fiber is now cheap enough to run as a homeowner, I took the opportunity to replace the copper so I can relax during lightning storms. This cable needs a carrier wire to suspend it so as not to damage the fiber line itself. I already had that installed, as I was merely replacing the copper Cat6 line with a fiber line. To suspend this fiber cable, I wrapped it around my suspension cable every foot or so. I did find that the loops of the fiber line around my suspension cable tended to bunch up -- either the coating on this fiber line is "slippery" or the suspension cable is slippery, or both. Either way, I had to find a way to keep the fiber line from sliding down my suspension cable, so I used a bunch of smaller wires to physically wrap around both the fiber line and my carrier line to fix the two cables together every 10 feet or so. I bought this specific cable to match the media converters used to convert from electrical to optical on one end and then back to electrical signal on the other end. The description for the media converts I used was: "A Pair of Gigabit Single-Mode LC Fiber to Ethernet Media Converter (SFP LX Modules Included),1.25G Fiber Media Converter, 1000Base-LX to 10/100/1000Base-TX, 1310nm, SMF, Transmission up to 20-KM" You can read my review of those converters to see my experience with them.

To someone that isn't a fiber tech, this is very confusing. The single wire pictured is DUPLEX (TWO WIRE with armor casing). You need LC DUPLEX SFP's. I gave 3 stars for quality, because I pulled ALL 200 meters out of 102' of conduit at my main building, through 400' of 3/4" liquid tight, and another 100' of (crowded) conduit into my second building at 40-degree temperature! 10+ 90-degree bends, terminated at converter in CPE, with NO ISSUES and perfect bandwidth! This was my first time running fiber! GREAT PRODUCT.

I purchased this July 2023 and buried it directly (no conduit, just straight into the dirt) and ran it under rocks/landscaping from building to building. Media converter on one end, and switch on the other. As I write this in September 2024, the cable has survived the harsh Northeast US elements of winter freezing and summer rain. Unsure of actual signal quality, but it's never stopped working!